{"id":251,"date":"2011-05-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=251"},"modified":"2011-05-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T11:00:00","slug":"wesley-dylan-grays-little-blue-egg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wesley-dylan-grays-little-blue-egg\/","title":{"rendered":"Wesley Dylan Gray's 'Little blue egg'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Little blue egg<\/span>
 <\/span>
In bed of grass and twigs, <\/span>
Little blue egg lies<\/span>
With siblings four or five.<\/span>
 <\/span>
To the side of gravel road,<\/span>
Little blue egg lost<\/span>
And plucked from home.<\/span>
 <\/span>
From trunk and branches high <\/span>
Little blue egg painted<\/span>
In shades of darker sky.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Little blue egg<\/span>
With freckles and flecks;<\/span>
Little blue egg<\/span>
In fingertips nests.<\/span>
 <\/span>
Brood of a blue jay,<\/span>
Mother not in sight;<\/span>
Little blue egg\u2014<\/span>
I take a bite.<\/span>
<\/p>\n



*Wesley Dylan Gray<\/span> is a writer of fiction and poetry. Find him online at <\/span>www.wesleydylangray.com.<\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Little blue egg In bed of grass and twigs, Little blue egg liesWith siblings four or five. To the side of gravel road,Little blue egg lostAnd plucked from home. From trunk and branches high Little blue egg paintedIn shades of darker sky. Little blue eggWith freckles and flecks;Little blue eggIn fingertips nests. Brood of a blue jay,Mother not in sight;Little […]<\/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-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","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=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}