{"id":19433,"date":"2019-07-10T08:00:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-10T08:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19433"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:18:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:18:48","slug":"dipo-baruwa-etti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dipo-baruwa-etti\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipo Baruwa-Etti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Seats<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before a table of white<br \/>\nPeople, I stand with ballet<br \/>\nSlippers strapped\/soft soles<br \/>\nHead pointed towards the angels.<\/p>\n<p>A dance, I commence. Pirouette<br \/>\nGrand adage, en point<br \/>\nFollowed by flight as a helium<br \/>\nAddicted balloon.<\/p>\n<p>Circling a table of white<br \/>\nPeople, I act as the Central<br \/>\nLine: quick\/convenient\/<br \/>\nStruggling to breathe.<\/p>\n<p>A dance, I conclude. Magic<br \/>\nHopefully proven<br \/>\nGate optimistically opened<br \/>\nHandcuffs gracefully broken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><b>Dipo Baruwa-Etti <\/b>is a playwright and poet. He has been published in <em>The Good Journal, Amaryllis<\/em>, and had his work showcased nationwide as part of End Hunger UK&#8217;s touring exhibition on food insecurity.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Seats Before a table of white People, I stand with ballet Slippers strapped\/soft soles Head pointed towards the angels. A dance, I commence. Pirouette Grand adage, en point Followed by flight as a helium Addicted balloon. Circling a table of white People, I act as the Central Line: quick\/convenient\/ Struggling to breathe. [&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":[138,141,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prizes-and-awards","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433","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=19433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19436,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19433\/revisions\/19436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}