{"id":19809,"date":"2019-09-23T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19809"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","slug":"helen-kay-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helen-kay-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Helen Kay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>NIMBY and the Supermoon 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The window by her pillow has the best job in the house:<br \/>\nit sneaks in day to kiss her awake to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a tail-thumping heart.<\/p>\n<p>Curtains slice a piece of sky, twig-flecked, let her taste<br \/>\nthe creamy dawn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 shame it\u2019s a #supermoontease.<\/p>\n<p>She breaks open sleep-stuck, blackout linings. Her heart howls.<br \/>\nNew houses, with scaffold ribs\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 fatten on the fields.<\/p>\n<p>Her hatred self-harms as the \u2018stunning\u2019 Wildflower estate<br \/>\nchews up trees and newts\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 smirks at her terrace.<\/p>\n<p>She is Sleeping Beauty. No sweet lips, just golden JCBs drilling<br \/>\nher mad. She goads the moon to flee \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0prays for a spindle prick.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Helen Kay<\/strong>\u2019s poems crop up in magazines. She was recently placed second in the Leeds Peace Prize, Wakefield Sanctuary and Welshpool competitions and commended in the Shelter and Festival of Firsts Competitions.\u00a0She spends too much time on Facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; NIMBY and the Supermoon 2018 The window by her pillow has the best job in the house: it sneaks in day to kiss her awake to\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 a tail-thumping heart. Curtains slice a piece of sky, twig-flecked, let her taste the creamy dawn\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 shame it\u2019s a #supermoontease. She breaks open sleep-stuck, blackout linings. [&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-19809","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\/19809","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=19809"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20109,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19809\/revisions\/20109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}