{"id":2131,"date":"2012-04-06T17:31:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-06T17:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2012-04-06T18:44:25","modified_gmt":"2012-04-06T18:44:25","slug":"bobby-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/bobby-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Clean White Shroud<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>For Geoff Stevens<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Smoking still makes me dizzy.<br \/>\nMy mind wanders when I boil soup.<br \/>\nEach pint<br \/>\nof dark ale, raised: \u2018Rage!\u2019<br \/>\nSee-through people play<br \/>\nwith broken poems<br \/>\non the other side, banging<br \/>\ntheir fists like cocaine hearts.<br \/>\nI hear rising chords,<br \/>\nminiature<br \/>\nbells anticipate your big splash.<br \/>\nThe slam of a heavy door.<br \/>\nA voice behind the curtain<br \/>\nasking for a towel:<br \/>\na clean<br \/>\nwhite shroud worthy of a saint<br \/>\nas our bathroom radio<br \/>\nstutters between stations<br \/>\nand my family\u2019s worried faces<br \/>\nbeg me to pass them<br \/>\nthings I cannot see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bobby Parker<\/strong> was born in 1982. He lives in Kidderminster, England. His most recent collections are <em>Ghost Town Music<\/em> and Comberton (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.knivesforksandspoonspress.co.uk\/theknivesforksandspoonspress\/HOME.html\" target=\"_blank\">knivesforksandspoonspress<\/a>), <em>Digging for Toys<\/em> and the limited edition chapbook<em> Building Murder with a Smile<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Clean White Shroud For Geoff Stevens Smoking still makes me dizzy. My mind wanders when I boil soup. Each pint of dark ale, raised: \u2018Rage!\u2019 See-through people play with broken poems on the other side, banging their fists like cocaine hearts. I hear rising chords, miniature bells anticipate your big splash. The slam of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}