{"id":2238,"date":"2012-04-15T18:42:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2238"},"modified":"2012-04-15T18:42:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-15T18:42:57","slug":"isabella-grabski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/isabella-grabski\/","title":{"rendered":"Isabella Grabski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Midnight Gentlemen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>all those midnight gentlemen,<br \/>\nwith their cultured bones<br \/>\nshaped so finely and their<br \/>\neyes like glass beads,<br \/>\nglinting dull coins in the<br \/>\nmoonlight- i can see them<br \/>\ntraipsing through the living<br \/>\nroom, up the stairs, their spindly<br \/>\nfingers knock-knock-knocking<br \/>\non her door, and the door<br \/>\ncracks open<\/p>\n<p>once inside, their lids droop over<br \/>\nbroken-star eyes and lips twitch<br \/>\nwith dream-words trapped behind<br \/>\nyellowing teeth.<\/p>\n<p>i listen to the sound of breathing;<br \/>\nthey are sleeping gentlemen and<br \/>\ni am a corpse<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isabella Grabski<\/strong> is a lifetime New Jersey resident with previously published works in various literary journals, including <em>Calliope Nerve, Mad Swirl<\/em>, and <em>Stray Branch Literary Magazine<\/em>. She is currently a student.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Midnight Gentlemen all those midnight gentlemen, with their cultured bones shaped so finely and their eyes like glass beads, glinting dull coins in the moonlight- i can see them traipsing through the living room, up the stairs, their spindly fingers knock-knock-knocking on her door, and the door cracks open once inside, their lids droop [&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-2238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238","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=2238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2242,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2238\/revisions\/2242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}