{"id":17795,"date":"2018-11-24T07:00:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T07:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=17795"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:36:51","slug":"andrew-turner-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/andrew-turner-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Turner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>While the rope creaks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The tall red haired girl recollects<br \/>\nthat she has balanced on<br \/>\nthe frayed tips of forests<br \/>\nthe mutant skins of rivers<br \/>\nthe sawn edges of seas<\/p>\n<p>that her precarious symmetry has taken<br \/>\nher along the uncertain beam<br \/>\nof the world but now<br \/>\nshe balances in her Novembered room<br \/>\none foot only on the slowly tipp-<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 215px;\">ing chair<\/span><br \/>\nand I am rushing to her<br \/>\nmy arms full of embroidered cushions<br \/>\nI will have spent far too long choosing<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Andrew Turner<\/strong> has been published online and in print. He lives in Staffordshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; While the rope creaks The tall red haired girl recollects that she has balanced on the frayed tips of forests the mutant skins of rivers the sawn edges of seas that her precarious symmetry has taken her along the uncertain beam of the world but now she balances in her Novembered room one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17795","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17795"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17797,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17795\/revisions\/17797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}