{"id":18605,"date":"2019-03-10T08:00:51","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18605"},"modified":"2019-03-10T09:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-10T09:40:03","slug":"paul-ings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/paul-ings\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Ings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out There<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new veranda is unfinished and unwalled<br \/>\nbut various chairs and a paint-splattered table<br \/>\nare placed out there in unfettered spaciousness<br \/>\nby impatience to savour realizations approach.<\/p>\n<p>The mind easily fills in the rest but finds<br \/>\nit doesn\u2019t care to; this open merry display<br \/>\nof anticipation is breeze-buffeted, hence a thing,<br \/>\nand exulted in sunlight for passers-by to see.<\/p>\n<p>Our laughter is clappered off bare concrete<br \/>\nand hobnobs with the croaking of the crows on high;<br \/>\nnot near yet neither far but on equal terms of Here.<br \/>\nUnique: this consciously coming into being<\/p>\n<p>to decadent sips of prematurely popped<br \/>\ngolden bubbly; it was you popped the question<br \/>\nif there\u2019s any point in actual completion<br \/>\nwhich had us laughing uproariously at the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul Ings<\/strong> born Bournemouth 1971, <em>Poetry in The Reader, The Interpreter&#8217;s House, Salzburg Poetry Review<\/em>, <em>South<\/em>, etc., anthologies: <i>Hildegard<\/i> (Poetry on the Lake), (Hammond House) and <i>Cornwall<\/i> (Palores Publications), translations of Czech poetry (BODY Literature), and reviews in Czech journal <em>Plav<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Out There The new veranda is unfinished and unwalled but various chairs and a paint-splattered table are placed out there in unfettered spaciousness by impatience to savour realizations approach. The mind easily fills in the rest but finds it doesn\u2019t care to; this open merry display of anticipation is breeze-buffeted, hence a thing, [&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-18605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18605","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=18605"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18605\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18765,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18605\/revisions\/18765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}