{"id":22729,"date":"2013-07-26T08:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=22729"},"modified":"2020-08-09T08:27:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-09T08:27:53","slug":"eleanor-hooker-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/eleanor-hooker-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Eleanor Hooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Melting Lead<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard it all my life. Pull up<br \/>\nA chair inside yourself and listen.<\/p>\n<p>A gland in your neck will make<br \/>\nyour eyes pulsate, bulge with malignant staring.<\/p>\n<p>Pull up a chair inside yourself and listen. Listen<br \/>\nto a tale of lead hands melting.<\/p>\n<p>A westerly with jagged teeth snaps a beech<br \/>\nIn two.\u00a0 Lead hands melt inside its hollowed core.<\/p>\n<p>A fallen tree sounds the air if ears will hear<br \/>\nits cracking bones.\u00a0 Leaden hands will cannibalise<\/p>\n<p>the bellied trunk for firewood.\u00a0 Pull up a chair<br \/>\ninside yourself and listen as a fractured stump<\/p>\n<p>wounds the earth, and wounded earth sifts root<br \/>\nfrom shallow ground. A pyre ablaze will burn<\/p>\n<p>for days, a spectral beacon at the water\u2019s edge. Lead hands<br \/>\nmelted down to liquid silver pouring into the world,<\/p>\n<p>a blister at its centre, cave bled to its heart. Pull up<br \/>\nA chair inside yourself and listen as your hollowed core<\/p>\n<p>is filled with leaden hands, molten leaden hands<br \/>\nfilling the empty centre at your heart.<\/p>\n<p>Pull up a chair inside yourself and listen.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eleanor Hooker<\/strong> was first published in <em>Leave Us Some Unreality: New Writing from the Oscar Wilde Centre, Trinity College Dublin<\/em>, and subsequently in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dedaluspress.com\/auth\/26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Shadow Owner\u2019s Companion<\/em><\/a>, February 2012<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Melting Lead I\u2019ve heard it all my life. Pull up A chair inside yourself and listen. A gland in your neck will make your eyes pulsate, bulge with malignant staring. Pull up a chair inside yourself and listen. Listen to a tale of lead hands melting. A westerly with jagged teeth snaps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-22729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22731,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22729\/revisions\/22731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}