{"id":19830,"date":"2019-09-27T07:00:52","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19830"},"modified":"2019-09-27T07:08:25","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T07:08:25","slug":"sophia-nicholson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sophia-nicholson\/","title":{"rendered":"Sophia Nicholson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I didn\u2019t really want you to touch me but I let you<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It seemed polite.<br \/>\nTalk to me.<br \/>\nAll my longings are floating<\/p>\n<p>in front of your eyes. I want you<br \/>\nto have laser surgery to tell my needs<br \/>\nfrom my neuroses like pieces<\/p>\n<p>of seaweed and washed<br \/>\nabalone. Maybe if you kissed<br \/>\nthe back of my knee and whispered<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d gleam more. Am I unlike<br \/>\na hyena that eats til the blood\u2019s<br \/>\npouring down my cheeks? You act<\/p>\n<p>like a mud runner but all I want<br \/>\nis for you to wash my feet<br \/>\nin sandalwood, tell me my opinions change<\/p>\n<p>your worldview, stroke my face<br \/>\nas if it were your daughter\u2019s. If you want<br \/>\nto do one last lap I won\u2019t<\/p>\n<p>say no. What spurs you on<br \/>\nto have sex with more<br \/>\nand more women?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sophia Nicholson<\/strong> is a poet and songwriter from Hertfordshire. She is a member of Covent Garden Stanza and practises yoga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I didn\u2019t really want you to touch me but I let you It seemed polite. Talk to me. All my longings are floating in front of your eyes. I want you to have laser surgery to tell my needs from my neuroses like pieces of seaweed and washed abalone. Maybe if you [&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-19830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830","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=19830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20156,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19830\/revisions\/20156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}