{"id":18411,"date":"2019-02-12T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18411"},"modified":"2019-02-11T20:48:09","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:48:09","slug":"john-newson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-newson\/","title":{"rendered":"John Newson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Interpretation of Signs<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This morning I pray for a sign,<br \/>\nknuckles paled by the knot<br \/>\nof tightly woven fingers;<br \/>\noutside the mackerel sky mirrors their whiteness.<\/p>\n<p>I check the butter dish for Jesus\u2019<br \/>\nface amid the melted and congealed scrapes<br \/>\nthat cling to the glazed corners.<br \/>\nLast night\u2019s leftover salmon jellifies<br \/>\non a plate by the overfilled sink.<\/p>\n<p>I replace the lid,<br \/>\nreturn the butter to its darkness;<br \/>\nI tip the salmon into the pedal bin<br \/>\nand crawl back into the belly of the bed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"m_-6219563513046087846yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1547648542931_5200\"><strong>John Newson<\/strong> lives in the Wiltshire countryside where he enjoys spending time with his wife and two children.\u00a0 He has work published with <em id=\"m_-6219563513046087846yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1547648542931_5296\">Anima Poetry, Avatar Review, Rotary Dial, The Lyric, The Moth<\/em> and others.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m_-6219563513046087846yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1547648542931_5172\" dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Interpretation of Signs This morning I pray for a sign, knuckles paled by the knot of tightly woven fingers; outside the mackerel sky mirrors their whiteness. I check the butter dish for Jesus\u2019 face amid the melted and congealed scrapes that cling to the glazed corners. Last night\u2019s leftover salmon jellifies on [&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-18411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411","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=18411"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18490,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18411\/revisions\/18490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}