{"id":20529,"date":"2019-11-18T08:00:02","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T08:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20529"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:50:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:50:24","slug":"20529","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/20529\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Maria Mickiewicz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hidden<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once they were hidden<br \/>\nForest covered the fear<br \/>\nDrowned out the silence&#8230;<br \/>\nDarkness stood on the way home<br \/>\nThe clock of the heart was beating in seconds<\/p>\n<p>Dash up there quickly, spread the arms<br \/>\nHair will fall down gently \u2028\u2028Hidden from brightness,<br \/>\nHidden from fate<\/p>\n<p>It is a dream&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Today<br \/>\nIn the London thicket they are still invisible<br \/>\nYet they feel the power<br \/>\nHidden in a short smile,<br \/>\nJust for a second.<br \/>\nThey fix taps<br \/>\nThey drink strong coffee<br \/>\nThey don\u2019t have to eat much,<br \/>\nSometimes only a sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anna Maria Mickiewicz<\/strong> (<a href=\"http:\/\/faleliterackie.com\">http:\/\/faleliterackie.com<\/a>) is a Polish-born poet, writer and editor who writes both in Polish and English. Anna moved to California, and then to London, where she has lived for many years.\u00a0She edits the annual literary magazine <em>Pami\u0119tnik Literacki <\/em>(<em>The<\/em> <em>Literary Memoir<\/em>), London, and is a member of English Pen. Her first collection was published in 1985. Publications include short stories and essays <em>Okruchy z Okr\u0105g\u0142ego Sto\u0142u (Breadcrumbs from the Round Table)<\/em> in 2000, <em>Londy<\/em><em>\u0144skie baga\u017ce literackie<\/em> in 2019, and collections <em>Proscenium<\/em> in 2010, <em>London Manuscript,<\/em> (Poetry Space, Bristol, 2014) and <em>The Mystery of Time, (<\/em>Flutter Press, USA 2019<em>.) <\/em>With Danuta B\u0142aszak she co-editor of <em>Flying Between Words, <\/em>Contemporary Writers of Poland (Florida: 2015)<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Hidden Once they were hidden Forest covered the fear Drowned out the silence&#8230; Darkness stood on the way home The clock of the heart was beating in seconds Dash up there quickly, spread the arms Hair will fall down gently \u2028\u2028Hidden from brightness, Hidden from fate It is a dream&#8230; Today [&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-20529","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\/20529","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=20529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20556,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20529\/revisions\/20556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}