{"id":18372,"date":"2019-02-08T08:00:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T08:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18372"},"modified":"2019-01-28T15:15:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T15:15:21","slug":"caroline-am-bergris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/caroline-am-bergris\/","title":{"rendered":"Caroline Am Bergris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Circles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A ping-pong chat with a stranger,<br \/>\ndots join to form a picture \u2013<br \/>\nhis steering wheel will turn towards you.<br \/>\nHowever, you hear zero<br \/>\nand confide in doughnuts.<\/p>\n<p>A ring from a friend marking twenty years,<br \/>\nyou see a green light for the next thirty \u2013<br \/>\nyet the cirque\u2019s not worth a penny,<br \/>\nfor she cycles on alone.<\/p>\n<p>Put \u2018tick\u2019 on record but as for \u2018tock\u2019-<br \/>\npractise holding inference<br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 76px;\">like a foam bubble<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 96px;\">suspended<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"margin-left: 90px;\">in your hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Am Bergris<\/strong> has been a mediator, church organist, mediator, comedian, a Phd theology student, and a teacher of ethics.She is physically and mentally disabled, has been published in various journals and has won the Over The Edge poetry prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Circles A ping-pong chat with a stranger, dots join to form a picture \u2013 his steering wheel will turn towards you. However, you hear zero and confide in doughnuts. A ring from a friend marking twenty years, you see a green light for the next thirty \u2013 yet the cirque\u2019s not worth a [&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-18372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372","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=18372"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18426,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18372\/revisions\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}