{"id":19074,"date":"2019-06-01T08:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T08:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19074"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:47:55","slug":"tom-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tom-bennett\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Bennett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Travelling Light<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A balloon scuds through the train<br \/>\nan \u2018L\u2019 it is or is it a \u20187\u2019? Evasive<br \/>\nthough its wake is empty of pursuit<br \/>\nand the door gives way courteously.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the second carriage a class<br \/>\nof children who gorge hard on toffee,<br \/>\ntheir waddle the product of a tight-laced boot<br \/>\ntheir flannel shorts a competition of kites.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In the third two entangled amours<br \/>\nsoak themselves in saccharine red wines,<br \/>\nand remark upon the odd anatomy of the other\u2019s ear:<br \/>\nthe <a href=\"https:\/\/drdavidbrady.com\/alprazolam-xanax-1mg\/\">buy alprazolam pills online<\/a> softness where the cartilage should be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A sharp halt rocks these realities,<br \/>\nleaving bags topsy-turvy and a glass in smithereens,<br \/>\nawakening a wizened conductor<br \/>\nclutching the one string of a balloon shaped \u20180\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Tom Bennett <\/strong>(23) studied English at Durham University for his undergraduate, before doing an MPhil in American Literature at Cambridge. He is currently teaching English in Spain and will start a PhD on Women and Maximalism in American literature this October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Travelling Light A balloon scuds through the train an \u2018L\u2019 it is or is it a \u20187\u2019? Evasive though its wake is empty of pursuit and the door gives way courteously. In the second carriage a class of children who gorge hard on toffee, their waddle the product of a tight-laced boot [&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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074","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=19074"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23841,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19074\/revisions\/23841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}