{"id":18829,"date":"2019-04-03T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18829"},"modified":"2019-03-30T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T11:41:02","slug":"tom-kelly-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tom-kelly-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rattling Memories<\/strong><br \/>\nFor Margaret Henderson (Nee Cumisky)<\/p>\n<p>I went for you.<br \/>\nYou could never afford to go.<br \/>\nIreland was a dream of yours.<\/p>\n<p>In Galway\u2019s Eyre Square,<br \/>\nyour voice became more and more Irish.<br \/>\nThe odd Gaelic expression<br \/>\nshuffling from your ill-fitting false teeth.<\/p>\n<p>At your unmarked grave,<br \/>\nI talked of our journey.<\/p>\n<p>Now the past is rattling this room<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tom Kelly<\/strong> is a Jarrow-born poet, playwright and short story writer. His ninth poetry collection <em>This Small Patch<\/em> will be published by Red Squirrel Press later this year. His most recent collection <em>Spelk<\/em> has recently been re-published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Rattling Memories For Margaret Henderson (Nee Cumisky) I went for you. You could never afford to go. Ireland was a dream of yours. In Galway\u2019s Eyre Square, your voice became more and more Irish. The odd Gaelic expression shuffling from your ill-fitting false teeth. At your unmarked grave, I talked of our [&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-18829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829","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=18829"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18833,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18829\/revisions\/18833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}