{"id":19256,"date":"2019-06-04T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19256"},"modified":"2019-06-04T07:55:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T07:55:51","slug":"charles-thompson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/charles-thompson\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Thompson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Geese now<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Geese now<br \/>\nracketing themselves to the south<br \/>\nlike a surprise storm and far<br \/>\nto the south<\/p>\n<p>and thus now &#8211; from the painting &#8211; thirty<br \/>\nbustling along with their quick<br \/>\nhot goose looks forward<br \/>\nor to the right or left<br \/>\nor dipping their necks<br \/>\nfor a munch of green stuff<br \/>\nor a slurp of water &#8211; with the goose boy<br \/>\nstill soft like a bit of dark tree behind<br \/>\nthem<\/p>\n<p>Feathers whitened<br \/>\ntheir dark<br \/>\neyes intent &#8211;<br \/>\ntug on food slup of drink<\/p>\n<p>now<\/p>\n<p>now they are past \u2013 a gaggle &#8211; and<br \/>\nthrough the stream<br \/>\nand on<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Charles Thompson<\/strong> has been writing poems since youth; he has had poems published in <em>Poetry Monthly<\/em> and <em>Poetry Scotland<\/em>. He has run the Lansdown Poets since 2006; they\u00a0 include many poets published in magazines and in their own books. He also runs the <em>Berkeley Square Poetry Revue.<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Geese now Geese now racketing themselves to the south like a surprise storm and far to the south and thus now &#8211; from the painting &#8211; thirty bustling along with their quick hot goose looks forward or to the right or left or dipping their necks for a munch of green stuff [&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-19256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256","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=19256"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19308,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19256\/revisions\/19308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}