{"id":18621,"date":"2019-03-14T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-03-14T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18621"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:18:40","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T15:18:40","slug":"indy-clark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/indy-clark\/","title":{"rendered":"Indy Clark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Firefly<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You see it first;<br \/>\nIridescent against the house,<br \/>\nA song of light beneath the roof<br \/>\nAs twilight falls.<\/p>\n<p>We watch the dance,<br \/>\nThe bioluminescent signal<br \/>\nA spark of hope;<br \/>\nI squeeze your hand.<\/p>\n<p>Unlock the door,<br \/>\nThe light fades to the edge of eyes<br \/>\nAnd inside, darkness turns to leave<br \/>\nA whole world open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Indy Clark<\/strong> is a songwriter, poet, and academic, originally from England but now living in Australia. He teaches at the University of Queensland and his most recent book about poetry is Thomas Hardy\u2019s <em>Pastoral: An Unkindly May<\/em> (Palgrave Macmillan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Firefly You see it first; Iridescent against the house, A song of light beneath the roof As twilight falls. We watch the dance, The bioluminescent signal A spark of hope; I squeeze your hand. Unlock the door, The light fades to the edge of eyes And inside, darkness turns to leave 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-18621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621","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=18621"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18623,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18621\/revisions\/18623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}