{"id":18464,"date":"2019-02-26T08:00:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T08:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18464"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:45:04","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:45:04","slug":"james-knight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/james-knight\/","title":{"rendered":"James Knight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cockroach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I began when the cockroach fell<br \/>\nthe cockroach was on the ceiling<br \/>\nthe ceiling was in a hospital<br \/>\nthe hospital was in a city<br \/>\nand the cockroach on the ceiling fell<\/p>\n<p>underneath the ceiling and the cockroach<br \/>\nwere my mother<br \/>\nand her belly<br \/>\nand<br \/>\ninside her belly<br \/>\nme<\/p>\n<p>when the cockroach fell from the ceiling<br \/>\nit landed on the things underneath<br \/>\nmy mother<br \/>\nand her belly<\/p>\n<p>the midwife looked from the belly<br \/>\nto my mother\u2019s face<br \/>\nand back to the belly again<\/p>\n<p>and then I was out of the belly<br \/>\nand I was in the room<br \/>\nand the midwife and my mother looked at me<br \/>\nand at the cockroach<br \/>\nand then at me again<\/p>\n<p>under a ceiling<br \/>\nin a hospital<br \/>\nin a city<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>James Knight<\/strong> is an experimental writer and digital artist. Void Voices, a re-imagining of Dante\u2019s Inferno, was published by Hesterglock Press in 2018. Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/thebirdking.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/thebirdking.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1549710932658000&amp;usg=AFQjCNH6p3IPgSJAXk5Iev74p7-EAypMMQ\">thebirdking.com<\/a>. Twitter: @badbadpoet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cockroach I began when the cockroach fell the cockroach was on the ceiling the ceiling was in a hospital the hospital was in a city and the cockroach on the ceiling fell underneath the ceiling and the cockroach were my mother and her belly and inside her belly me when the cockroach [&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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464","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=18464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18465,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18464\/revisions\/18465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}