{"id":20681,"date":"2019-12-15T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-15T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=20681"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:00:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:00:58","slug":"adrian-salmon-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/adrian-salmon-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Salmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>She has had a glimpse of heaven<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>and will not be denied<\/p>\n<p>they try to feed her<br \/>\nand she can feel it slipping<\/p>\n<p>her rage is righteous<br \/>\nit is perfect<\/p>\n<p>she does not want to be good<br \/>\nwhen perfection is possible<\/p>\n<p>they tell her she is beautiful<br \/>\nbut she knows they lie<\/p>\n<p>they have given up<br \/>\nbut she will not, ever<\/p>\n<p>she wants to be edge-on to the world<br \/>\nsharp enough to cut reality<\/p>\n<p>she wants to be thin enough<br \/>\nto slip through the gaps in the railings<\/p>\n<p>and fly perfect in the garden<br \/>\nwhere girls don\u2019t have to touch the ground<\/p>\n<p>ever, ever<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adrian Salmon<\/strong> lives in Bingley, West Yorkshire. Adrian\u2019s first pamphlet, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/adriansalmonpoet.com\/moonlight-through-the-velux-window\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/adriansalmonpoet.com\/moonlight-through-the-velux-window\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1575632141020000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE77uzdWcH9lVLFr0lr9IEzeLzh4w\">Moonlight through the Velux window<\/a><\/em>, was published by Yaffle Press in June 2019. Adrian\u2019s poems have appeared in <em>Algebra of Owls<\/em>,\u00a0<em>I am not a silent poet<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Ink Sweat &amp; Tears<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Poetry24<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Prole<\/em>, and\u00a0<em>Strix<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has had a glimpse of heaven and will not be denied they try to feed her and she can feel it slipping her rage is righteous it is perfect she does not want to be good when perfection is possible they tell her she is beautiful but she knows they lie they have given [&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-20681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681","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=20681"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24197,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20681\/revisions\/24197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}