{"id":19734,"date":"2019-09-02T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T08:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19734"},"modified":"2019-09-01T17:48:15","modified_gmt":"2019-09-01T17:48:15","slug":"stella-wulf-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/stella-wulf-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Stella Wulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goldilocks<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She wafted in like a nymph,<br \/>\ncharmed us with her grace,<br \/>\nher birch-pale skin, hair<br \/>\nthe liquid gold of butter,<br \/>\nmelted on a silvered tongue.<\/p>\n<p>Neither aloof nor overbearing<br \/>\nwe folded her in hugs, shared<br \/>\nour bowls and our picnic rugs,<br \/>\nas we served up our hearts,<br \/>\nnot too hot, not too cold,<\/p>\n<p>and in return she helped us bear<br \/>\nthe grisly pain of my mother&#8217;s fight,<br \/>\nbecame my father&#8217;s buttress,<br \/>\nsupporting him in his gnawing fear<br \/>\nof an unhappy ending.<\/p>\n<p>She broke our family seat,<br \/>\npoisoned Mother\u2019s happy-ever-after,<br \/>\nfed Father a new once-upon-a-time.<\/p>\n<p>Very sweet and very clear,<br \/>\nshe dripped her honey in his willing ear,<br \/>\ntook herself to his bed,<br \/>\ndeclared it just right.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Stella Wulf<\/strong>\u2019s work has been widely published and has appeared in several anthologies, including #<em>MeToo, <\/em>and<em> The Very Best of 52.<\/em> Her pamphlet, <em>After Eden<\/em>, was\u00a0published by 4Word Press <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4word.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.4word.org&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1564322616906000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGpZXPnTuZ7jVSeQRsNWgfWwi-y-w\">www.4word.org<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Goldilocks She wafted in like a nymph, charmed us with her grace, her birch-pale skin, hair the liquid gold of butter, melted on a silvered tongue. Neither aloof nor overbearing we folded her in hugs, shared our bowls and our picnic rugs, as we served up our hearts, not too hot, not [&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-19734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734","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=19734"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19980,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19734\/revisions\/19980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}