{"id":20389,"date":"2019-11-16T08:00:54","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20389"},"modified":"2019-11-16T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T08:16:14","slug":"j-v-birch-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/j-v-birch-2\/","title":{"rendered":"J V Birch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Moon daisies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Do you know about the daisies that only open<br \/>\nin moonlight? Have you seen the attic full<br \/>\nof sadness and when the tallest of us fall?<\/p>\n<p>And then the questions to which we answer<br \/>\nI\u2019ve no idea what you\u2019re talking about or<br \/>\nI\u2019m only here cos I was told I could share.<\/p>\n<p>Did you hear about the cat who found its old<br \/>\ntongues? It gave some to me. I stitched them<br \/>\ninto a scarf to keep my neck <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isotretinoinonlinebuy.com\">isotretinoinonlinebuy.com<\/a> warm in winter.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know why I can\u2019t dream in colour.<br \/>\nAll the things we left unsaid are line-dried<br \/>\nand folded. Tomorrow will give them mouths.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>J V Birch<\/strong> lives in Adelaide. Her poems have been published in Australia, the UK, Canada and the US. She has three chapbooks with Ginninderra Press and a full-length collection, <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ginninderrapress.com.au\/store.php?product\/page\/1941\/J+V+Birch+%2F+more+than+here\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.ginninderrapress.com.au\/store.php?product\/page\/1941\/J%2BV%2BBirch%2B%252F%2Bmore%2Bthan%2Bhere&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572081545028000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFnkyKNuPD5crLWen_Q6SO_lQeDaw\">more than here<\/a><\/i>, and blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jvbirch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.jvbirch.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572081545028000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFWp6oRMKMHC5iKuwJ01S3wWSheLQ\">www.jvbirch.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Moon daisies Do you know about the daisies that only open in moonlight? Have you seen the attic full of sadness and when the tallest of us fall? And then the questions to which we answer I\u2019ve no idea what you\u2019re talking about or I\u2019m only here cos I was told I [&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-20389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389","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=20389"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20512,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20389\/revisions\/20512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}