{"id":177,"date":"2011-02-24T11:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-02-24T11:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=177"},"modified":"2016-11-25T10:48:46","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T10:48:46","slug":"c-alberts-flora-and-the-meaning-of-roundling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/c-alberts-flora-and-the-meaning-of-roundling\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Albert&#8217;s &#8216;The Meaning of Roundling&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A poem\u00a0(with image)\u00a0from our artist\/poet in residence <strong>C. Albert.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Flora the Poet<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"flora\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/flora.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Meaning of Roundling<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the edges<br \/>\nof our eyes, we catch glimpses<br \/>\nof roundlings peeking through windows.<br \/>\nGentle creatures, ready to bolt,<br \/>\nfragile with dark traumas<br \/>\npassed onto them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Best not to talk<br \/>\nin x,y,z. A whisper,<br \/>\n\u00a0&#8220;why didn&#8217;t you&#8221; or &#8220;you should&#8221;<br \/>\nis an attack of syntax, a barbed construction<br \/>\nthat shatters them. They will run<br \/>\nwith the thought,<br \/>\n&#8220;It is not safe.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once they flee,<br \/>\nthe void aches with absence<br \/>\nof oval tenderness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes they can be enticed<br \/>\nwith soft fruits and scents\u00a0of fresh<br \/>\nlemon, orange or tangerine.<br \/>\nRound stones<br \/>\nwill please.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Feed them colors,<br \/>\nspeak in fluted ragas,<br \/>\noffer acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>The Meaning of Roundling<\/em>\u00a0was first published in\u00a0<em>Mannequin Envy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>* C.Albert <\/strong>is based in Seattle, Washington and we will be featuring more of her work in the coming months.\u00a0 She can be contacted through <a href=\"mailto:inksweatandtears@aol.com\">inksweatandtears@aol.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A poem\u00a0(with image)\u00a0from our artist\/poet in residence C. Albert.\u00a0 &nbsp; Flora the Poet \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 The Meaning of Roundling &nbsp; With the edges of our eyes, we catch glimpses of roundlings peeking through windows. Gentle creatures, ready to bolt, fragile with dark traumas passed onto them. &nbsp; Best not to talk in x,y,z. A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12754,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/12754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}