{"id":19033,"date":"2019-05-07T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19033"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:42:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:42:32","slug":"william-keckler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/william-keckler\/","title":{"rendered":"William Keckler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>hugging mother&#8217;s urn<\/div>\n<div>inner child steps<br \/>\nover sidewalk cracks<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>first grey hairs<br \/>\nhe stands on his hands<br \/>\nbefore making love<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>pew pew<br \/>\nsome homely holiness<br \/>\naims at us<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0*<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>talking to a snake<br \/>\nwe discover just skin<br \/>\nshed skin listening<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>big white moth<br \/>\nflies past the red light holds us<br \/>\npinned to the moon<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 *<\/div>\n<div>\nOctober cold<br \/>\nmaking a dead man&#8217;s wife&#8217;s children&#8217;s<br \/>\npumpkin smile for them<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>William Keckler<\/strong>&#8216;s books include <em>Sanskrit of the Body<\/em>, which was selected by Mary Oliver for the (U.S.) National Poetry Series and published by Penguin. His visual art work was included in the group collection Four Photographers.<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; hugging mother&#8217;s urn inner child steps over sidewalk cracks \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 * first grey hairs he stands on his hands before making love \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 * pew pew some homely holiness aims at us \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0* talking to a snake we discover just skin shed skin [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033","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=19033"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19165,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19033\/revisions\/19165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}