{"id":19056,"date":"2019-05-17T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19056"},"modified":"2019-05-17T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T08:16:49","slug":"julia-gibson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/julia-gibson\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Gibson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Staying Put<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you stick around for long enough,<br \/>\nyou get good at being in a place.<\/p>\n<p>You know the best secluded spots<br \/>\nwhere you can watch stars or sunbathe on a rock,<\/p>\n<p>letting sunbeams soak through all your senses<br \/>\nwhile you kiss or make flat stones play hopscotch.<\/p>\n<p>You know the best obstacles to climb and then surmount<br \/>\nwhen all the spotlights of the street hum on<\/p>\n<p>and all the darkest corners in which to crouch<br \/>\nwhen cops come patrolling in the park.<\/p>\n<p>You know there&#8217;s discounted bread on Thursdays<br \/>\nat the corner bakery up the hill<\/p>\n<p>and which cafe has the nuttiest coffee<br \/>\nthat you can sip leaning over the window sill.<\/p>\n<p>You get good at knowing there&#8217;s an elsewhere<br \/>\nbut not straining for its arrival.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Julia Gibson<\/strong> is a Toronto-based poet and engineer. Her first book-length collection of poems, <i>Two Doors<\/i>, will be published in summer 2019 by<\/div>\n<div>Clare Songbirds Publishing House. Her personal website is at <a href=\"https:\/\/julia-gibson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/julia-gibson.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1556379603085000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEU8O5RaEOXVRXo7l9mQGJUpovAjQ\">https:\/\/julia-gibson.com\/. <\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Staying Put When you stick around for long enough, you get good at being in a place. You know the best secluded spots where you can watch stars or sunbathe on a rock, letting sunbeams soak through all your senses while you kiss or make flat stones play hopscotch. You know the [&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-19056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056","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=19056"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19197,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19056\/revisions\/19197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}