{"id":19631,"date":"2019-08-05T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19631"},"modified":"2019-08-05T09:12:43","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T09:12:43","slug":"dennis-tomlinson-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dennis-tomlinson-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Tomlinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Late Birth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Two thousand years\u2019<br \/>\nwait in the cold soil,<br \/>\nstones and worms my friends.<\/p>\n<p>Some kind of tremor<br \/>\nhurts me into movement \u2013<br \/>\nI fight the heavy clay.<\/p>\n<p>One hand grasps fibres,<br \/>\nroots of grass, dead leaves,<br \/>\nas I pull my body<\/p>\n<p>up into staring light<br \/>\nglimpsed through scratching grit,<br \/>\nmy ancient tears.<\/p>\n<p>Through muddy lips<br \/>\nI scream at the sun<br \/>\nand the bright water.<\/p>\n<p>Shapes are coming,<br \/>\nlong-necked and swaying,<br \/>\ncloser to me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Dennis Tomlinson<\/strong>\u2019s poems have been published in little anthologies and magazines, also on the websites <em>Ink, Sweat and Tears <\/em>and <em>Shot Glass Journal. <\/em>His first poetry pamphlet, <em>Sleepless Nights, <\/em>has just come out with Maverick Mustang Manuscripts. He lives in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0Late Birth Two thousand years\u2019 wait in the cold soil, stones and worms my friends. Some kind of tremor hurts me into movement \u2013 I fight the heavy clay. One hand grasps fibres, roots of grass, dead leaves, as I pull my body up into staring light glimpsed through scratching grit, my [&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-19631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631","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=19631"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19875,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19631\/revisions\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}