{"id":18333,"date":"2019-02-03T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18333"},"modified":"2019-01-28T12:03:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T12:03:58","slug":"18333","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/18333\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"m_-1345579355445194240ydpac7a5010MsoNormal\"><b>Promises<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This year, I resolve, to travel once around the sun.<br \/>\nTo notice the moon\u2019s faces, and the stars insistent percussion.<br \/>\nI will eye myself in raindrops that cling to naked twigs,<br \/>\nand elongate each moment.<br \/>\nAnything is possible.<br \/>\nThis year, it will be good to walk the path of a river,<br \/>\nspringing from darkness to surge down the land,<br \/>\nseeking always for the sea. Ancient water, still moving,<br \/>\nI will heed this shapeshifter.<br \/>\nThis year, I have a lot to learn. I want to know what happens,<br \/>\nmoments before sparks fly, surface to surface, energy poised<br \/>\nbefore ignition. I will be a moth to this.<br \/>\nI am not promising much, only to turn the earth gently,<br \/>\nto coax seeds from the soil,<br \/>\nand be ready to hear their songs.<br \/>\n<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><strong>Alison Jones<\/strong> is a teacher, and writer with work published in a variety of places, from <em>Proletarian Poetry<\/em> and <em>The Interpreter\u2019s House, <\/em>to<em> The Green Parent Magazine <\/em>and<em> The Guardian<\/em>. Her pamphlet, <em>Heartwood<\/em> was published by Indigo Dreams in 2018, with a second pamphlet. <em>Omega<\/em> forthcoming in 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/alison-jones\/4594492474\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/alison-jones\/4594492474&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1548431355381000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG_YKOiG4PhsxE2lllAGm2ReT_gqA\">https:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.<wbr \/>uk\/alison-jones\/4594492474<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Promises This year, I resolve, to travel once around the sun. To notice the moon\u2019s faces, and the stars insistent percussion. I will eye myself in raindrops that cling to naked twigs, and elongate each moment. Anything is possible. This year, it will be good to walk the path of a river, springing [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333","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=18333"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18393,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18333\/revisions\/18393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}