{"id":19770,"date":"2019-09-10T07:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-10T07:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19770"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","slug":"judi-walsh-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/judi-walsh-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Judi Walsh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Stone<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Let me look at your face\u00a0in wonder, and hold it in my hands.\u00a0Let me, with\u00a0careful fingers,\u00a0trace\u00a0that noble nose,\u00a0handsome and proud, which now can\u2019t poke where it doesn\u2019t belong.\u00a0Let me\u00a0stroke those silky eyelids\u00a0with my thumbs. I will\u00a0try and fail not to\u00a0press hard on\u00a0those\u00a0eyes which see\u00a0too much.\u00a0Let\u00a0my mute\u00a0mouth\u00a0claim your cruel mouth, so that your\u00a0teeth\u00a0are exposed, and so I have two tongues, and you have none.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Judi Walsh<\/strong> writes poetry and flash fiction. Her work has been listed for several awards including the Salt Flash Fiction Prize, National Flash Fiction Micro Competition and the Bath Flash Fiction and Novella-In-Flash awards. She tweets\u00a0@judi_walsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0Stone Let me look at your face\u00a0in wonder, and hold it in my hands.\u00a0Let me, with\u00a0careful fingers,\u00a0trace\u00a0that noble nose,\u00a0handsome and proud, which now can\u2019t poke where it doesn\u2019t belong.\u00a0Let me\u00a0stroke those silky eyelids\u00a0with my thumbs. I will\u00a0try and fail not to\u00a0press hard on\u00a0those\u00a0eyes which see\u00a0too much.\u00a0Let\u00a0my mute\u00a0mouth\u00a0claim your cruel mouth, so that [&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-19770","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\/19770","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=19770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20009,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19770\/revisions\/20009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}