{"id":2185,"date":"2012-04-12T14:20:16","date_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2185"},"modified":"2012-04-12T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-12T14:20:16","slug":"tim-lenton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/tim-lenton\/","title":{"rendered":"Tim Lenton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Knife Hits Nerve<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Caught cold in dead november space<br \/>\nbetween dark and dark,<br \/>\nsky sinks like ether<br \/>\nover crumbling consciousness, and<br \/>\nthere is no more pain<\/p>\n<p>or joy:<br \/>\nsimply technique, cutting through layers<br \/>\nwithout feeling<\/p>\n<p>and behind the house<br \/>\nwhere you do not live any more<br \/>\nsit bright tombstones, open doors<\/p>\n<p>or, if you were to look further,<br \/>\nthe muttering city<br \/>\nthat we were meant to retake<br \/>\nfor the Kingdom of God<br \/>\nbut could not find the key<\/p>\n<p>Uncertain now, we see<br \/>\na line of blue on the horizon<br \/>\nbut darkness overhead<\/p>\n<p>Knife hits nerve<br \/>\nin the windowless room<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Lenton<\/strong> is a founder-member of <em>InPrint<\/em>, the poetry and visual arts collaborative group. He is a former journalist who lives in Norwich and has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.back2sq1.co.uk\/www.back2sq1.co.uk\/Home.html\">website<\/a> which includes some poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knife Hits Nerve Caught cold in dead november space between dark and dark, sky sinks like ether over crumbling consciousness, and there is no more pain or joy: simply technique, cutting through layers without feeling and behind the house where you do not live any more sit bright tombstones, open doors or, if you were [&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-2185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185","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=2185"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2185\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}