{"id":18462,"date":"2019-02-25T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18462"},"modified":"2019-02-25T08:45:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T08:45:42","slug":"gerry-stewart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gerry-stewart\/","title":{"rendered":"Gerry Stewart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>After the Work is Done<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wood-warm tools muddied,<br \/>\nscraped and set aside,<br \/>\na pleasant ache lingers in my joints.<\/p>\n<p>I lounge on my shed\u2019s tilted porch,<br \/>\nwaiting for the first flickers of life.<br \/>\nSun on my belly<br \/>\nslick as a rain-battered tulip.<\/p>\n<p>I am scrapes, nettle stings,<br \/>\nfingers cracking with dirt,<br \/>\nexpectant.<\/p>\n<p>Time can drip in measured thoughts<br \/>\nfrom the water spout,<br \/>\nmeander by<br \/>\nlike a hibernation-drowsy bee.<\/p>\n<p>A haze of unworried weeds<br \/>\ncreeps over the beds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Gerry Stewart<\/strong> is a poet, creative writing tutor and editor based in Finland. Her poetry collection <i>Post-Holiday Blues<\/i> was published by Flambard Press, UK. Her writing blog can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/thistlewren.blogspot.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/thistlewren.blogspot.fi\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549710932663000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFrc4MHM8MtGGfLi9zZf4mxin6tOA\">http:\/\/thistlewren.blogspot.<wbr \/>fi\/<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; After the Work is Done Wood-warm tools muddied, scraped and set aside, a pleasant ache lingers in my joints. I lounge on my shed\u2019s tilted porch, waiting for the first flickers of life. Sun on my belly slick as a rain-battered tulip. I am scrapes, nettle stings, fingers cracking with dirt, expectant. [&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-18462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462","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=18462"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18562,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18462\/revisions\/18562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}