{"id":19363,"date":"2019-06-20T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T08:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19363"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:47:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:47:55","slug":"sally-michaelson-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sally-michaelson-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Michaelson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Night Raide<\/strong>r<\/p>\n<p>Creeping down at night<br \/>\nto pillage the larder<br \/>\nI am my own ghost on the stairs<\/p>\n<p>searching\u00a0 for Digestive biscuits,<br \/>\npungent oranges, hard cheese<\/p>\n<p>so I can sink in my teeth,<br \/>\nleave a trail of crumbs,<br \/>\na waft of citrus.<\/p>\n<p>Mum will find stigmata of me eating<br \/>\nbut\u00a0 she will never see me eat.<\/p>\n<p>Her cauldron of chicken soup<br \/>\non the stone slab<br \/>\nmakes me retch,<\/p>\n<p>the skating-rink of fat<br \/>\nwill take an hour to melt<\/p>\n<p>when she heats it up<br \/>\nfor Shabbos dinner<\/p>\n<p>my skeleton as centerpiece.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally Michaelson<\/strong> is a recently retired Conference Interpreter living in Brussels. Her poems have been published in\u00a0<i>Ink, Sweat and Tears, Lighthouse, Algebra of Owls, The Bangor Literary Journal, Squawk Back, Amethyst, and The Lake.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Night Raider Creeping down at night to pillage the larder I am my own ghost on the stairs searching\u00a0 for Digestive biscuits, pungent oranges, hard cheese so I can sink in my teeth, leave a trail of crumbs, a waft of citrus. Mum will find stigmata of me eating but\u00a0 she [&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-19363","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\/19363","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=19363"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19364,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19363\/revisions\/19364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}