{"id":19839,"date":"2019-09-29T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-29T08:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=19839"},"modified":"2019-09-28T10:27:22","modified_gmt":"2019-09-28T10:27:22","slug":"phil-vernon-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/phil-vernon-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Vernon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He rides a train<br \/>\nthrough slow flat land:<br \/>\nnothing to see<br \/>\nbut horizon,<\/p>\n<p>then wanders clumps of yellowed grass<br \/>\nand sand,<br \/>\nand sets a wounded beetle<br \/>\non a stone.<\/p>\n<p>With awkward clattering<br \/>\na lone jackdaw<br \/>\nalights<br \/>\nand takes its unexpected prey.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he waits all week<br \/>\nfor a metaphor,<br \/>\nthen two \u2013 or more \u2013<br \/>\nturn up in a day.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Phil Vernon<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared in magazines, journals and websites. A micro-collection, <i>This Quieter Shore,<\/i> was published by Hedgehog in 2019, and a full collection is forthcoming from Sentinel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philvernon.net\/category\/poetry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.philvernon.net\/category\/poetry&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1564910642884000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEMFdxveA6WDJHkMyPZ-hKUNIEK-w\">www.philvernon.net\/category\/<wbr \/>poetry<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Journey He rides a train through slow flat land: nothing to see but horizon, then wanders clumps of yellowed grass and sand, and sets a wounded beetle on a stone. With awkward clattering a lone jackdaw alights and takes its unexpected prey. Sometimes he waits all week for a metaphor, then two [&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-19839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839","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=19839"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20162,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19839\/revisions\/20162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}