{"id":18863,"date":"2019-04-14T08:00:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T08:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=18863"},"modified":"2019-03-30T14:54:34","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T14:54:34","slug":"beth-mcdonough-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/beth-mcdonough-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth McDonough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Check you, on my doorstep, loaded<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>with one bam-on-the-glass headbanger wasp.<br \/>\nYou\u2019re offering me sharp glimpses of glint,<br \/>\nthat dropped tumbler\u2019s unswept-up chip.<br \/>\nHow it grins from the grout between tiles.<\/p>\n<p>There you are, crazy among the slowed-motion,<br \/>\ndust moted polka. Yes, comforting all<br \/>\nwho sat out that dance. Happy to settle<br \/>\non the on-the-shelf pot, gone tottery right at the rim.<\/p>\n<p>But your handover confirms<br \/>\na known culprit\u2019s prints. Wax-slapped wee hands<br \/>\nHitherto invisible, lost on the glass,<br \/>\nnow pushing doors open between outside and in.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, when you suggested <a href=\"http:\/\/buyonlinegenericmeds.com\">buyonlinegenericmeds.com<\/a> that swim,<br \/>\nI was tempted to lurk over-long in the firth.<br \/>\nYes. I accepted. Shuddered the consequences.<br \/>\nAnd of course, I&#8217;ll do it again.<\/p>\n<p>For your gifts appear naughty in bright beams,<br \/>\narrive jumping with dolphins.<br \/>\nThe first of this year.<br \/>\nCome in, armed messenger. Come in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beth McDonough<\/strong>\u2019s poetry appears in <em>Causeway, Agenda<\/em> and elsewhere; she reviews in DURA. <em>Handfast<\/em> (2016, with Ruth Aylett) explores family experiences of dementia and autism. A pamphlet is coming&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Check you, on my doorstep, loaded with one bam-on-the-glass headbanger wasp. You\u2019re offering me sharp glimpses of glint, that dropped tumbler\u2019s unswept-up chip. How it grins from the grout between tiles. There you are, crazy among the slowed-motion, dust moted polka. Yes, comforting all who sat out that dance. Happy to settle [&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-18863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863","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=18863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18864,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18863\/revisions\/18864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}