{"id":19823,"date":"2019-09-25T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19823"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:52:08","slug":"brian-rihlmann","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/brian-rihlmann\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Rihlmann"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brick by Brick<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>how tough a wall<br \/>\nyou can build<br \/>\nfrom bubbles<\/p>\n<p>they stack like bricks<br \/>\nand solidify<br \/>\ninto something<br \/>\nyou couldn\u2019t break<br \/>\nwith a sledgehammer<\/p>\n<p>when you pick up the phone<br \/>\nthe words are fewer<br \/>\nharder<\/p>\n<p>dripping<br \/>\nnot flowing<br \/>\na sponge<br \/>\nwrung to its last<\/p>\n<p>they are tired, too<br \/>\nthey get lazy<br \/>\nthey limp with age<br \/>\nand overwork<\/p>\n<p>or they slink away<br \/>\nand hide<br \/>\nponder their betrayals<\/p>\n<p>we grow more silent<br \/>\nas we prepare<br \/>\nfor silence<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allpoetry.com\/Brian_Rihlmann\"><strong>Brian Rihlmann<\/strong><\/a> was born in New Jersey and currently resides in Reno, Nevada. \u00a0He has been published in <em>Blognostics, Red Eft Review, Spillwords, Synchronized Chaos, Cajun Mutt Press, The Rye Whiskey Review<\/em>, and others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Brick by Brick how tough a wall you can build from bubbles they stack like bricks and solidify into something you couldn\u2019t break with a sledgehammer when you pick up the phone the words are fewer harder dripping not flowing a sponge wrung to its last they are tired, too they get [&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-19823","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\/19823","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=19823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19825,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19823\/revisions\/19825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}