{"id":24202,"date":"2020-01-01T16:41:51","date_gmt":"2020-01-01T16:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=24202"},"modified":"2020-12-14T16:44:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T16:44:42","slug":"on-the-eleventh-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-kymm-coveney-belinda-rimmer-zach-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/on-the-eleventh-day-of-christmas-we-bring-you-kymm-coveney-belinda-rimmer-zach-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"On the Eleventh Day of Christmas we bring you Kymm Coveney,  Belinda Rimmer, Zach Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Care and Management of a New Year<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hold at arm\u2019s length, remembering how<br \/>\nthe predecessor scorched. Raw skin,<br \/>\nready to heal, flinches under a moonlit<br \/>\nwhispering.<\/p>\n<p>Ring ting-a-ling.<\/p>\n<p>Pull an arm\u2019s length of rope, hefting<br \/>\nextra holiday weight. Those bells<br \/>\nneed to peal. Shoulder to the wheel<br \/>\ntill they swing.<\/p>\n<p>Begin anything.<\/p>\n<p>Stride an arm\u2019s length to start, heel<br \/>\nto toe the only way to go. Forward,<br \/>\nonward. Flap your tattered cobwebbed<br \/>\nlengths of string.<\/p>\n<p>Flicker of wings.<\/p>\n<p>Spread one arm\u2019s length east; one west.<br \/>\nRace Icarus to this sun\u2019s sun, unseen<br \/>\nunstrung. Lasso beams into chords.<\/p>\n<p>Pick, strum, ping.<\/p>\n<p>Sing into being.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kymm Coveney<\/strong> was born in Boston, lives in Spain and works as a freelance translator and writer. Flash fiction, poems and translations can be found online and at <a href=\"http:\/\/betterlies.blogspot.com\/\">BetterLies<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Care and Management of a New Year Hold at arm\u2019s length, remembering how the predecessor scorched. Raw skin, ready to heal, flinches under a moonlit whispering. Ring ting-a-ling. Pull an arm\u2019s length of rope, hefting extra holiday weight. Those bells need to peal. Shoulder to the wheel till they swing. Begin anything. Stride an arm\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-twelve-days-of-christmas-201920"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202","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=24202"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24203,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24202\/revisions\/24203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}