{"id":226,"date":"2011-04-16T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T17:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=226"},"modified":"2011-04-16T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T17:13:00","slug":"two-prose-poems-from-connor-blacksher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-prose-poems-from-connor-blacksher\/","title":{"rendered":"Two prose poems from Connor Blacksher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Hydrating the entire station<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/>Thank you to whoever broke up with the sky. Had I some cookie dough to feed it, I would. For now I\u2019m going to celebrate the heartbreak of the heavens&nbsp;and the death of an individual. Footprints washed up in pavement flooded. Now worms are free to swim to the surface&nbsp;reunion with the union of air breathers. The window becomes my television, the roof my umbrella. I\u2019m not getting the mail today.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">D.D.S.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/>Throw a brick in the mirror; I\u2019ll take the seven years. The luck a reminder: I see you better than any glass could. Pause this moment. Let me jump into your eyes. Climbing to the tree tops, surrounding beauty of land. Swallow me with your smile. Regaining wings, I would walk on sunshine if my feet touched the ground. Note to your dentist: Thank you. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Connor Blacksher<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> is a Creative Writing student at Concordia University, St. Paul. His work has been published in Indigo Rising Magazine. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hydrating the entire stationThank you to whoever broke up with the sky. Had I some cookie dough to feed it, I would. For now I\u2019m going to celebrate the heartbreak of the heavens&nbsp;and the death of an individual. Footprints washed up in pavement flooded. Now worms are free to swim to the surface&nbsp;reunion with the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}