{"id":20391,"date":"2019-11-17T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20391"},"modified":"2019-11-17T08:56:07","modified_gmt":"2019-11-17T08:56:07","slug":"20391","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/20391\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Sharman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nightjar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want to be a Nightjar<br \/>\nwhere language is colour<br \/>\nwhere my ways of being<br \/>\ncryptic and crepuscular<br \/>\nare accepted like stars in night skies.<\/p>\n<p>I wish I was a Nightjar<br \/>\ncould spend my days<br \/>\nhidden in your scrubland,<br \/>\nwait for light to dim,<br \/>\nso that my secret songs<br \/>\ncan be heard in twilight.<\/p>\n<p>I dream of being a Nightjar,<br \/>\nto feel my flight and hawking.<br \/>\nI need to hear my churring<br \/>\nknow you can hear my song<br \/>\nand find me here, a refugee<br \/>\non the edge of your lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><strong>Penny Sharman<\/strong> has a MA in Creative Writing from Edge Hill University. Her pamphlet<em> Fair Ground<\/em> is published by Yaffle press. Her collection <em>Swim With Me In Deep Water<\/em> is published by Cerasus poetry. Her books are available to buy from her website: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pennysharman.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/pennysharman.co.uk&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1572081544718000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFnGri8ZBN4PaaRKW97VejXSVNBGw\">pennysharman.co.uk<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Nightjar I want to be a Nightjar where language is colour where my ways of being cryptic and crepuscular are accepted like stars in night skies. I wish I was a Nightjar could spend my days hidden in your scrubland, wait for light to dim, so that my secret songs can be [&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-20391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391","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=20391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20524,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20391\/revisions\/20524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}