{"id":2541,"date":"2012-05-22T12:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2541"},"modified":"2012-05-16T11:23:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T11:23:18","slug":"ellena-deeley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ellena-deeley\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellena Deeley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Dear Penelope Tree,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I wish I were you and you were me,<\/p>\n<p>So, in the heat of Carnaby Street in 1963,<\/p>\n<p>When the cabs and salesgirls<\/p>\n<p>Gawp<\/p>\n<p>At monochrome-dramatic billboard dreams<\/p>\n<p>And the synaptic circuits fire green,<\/p>\n<p>Like blinking traffic arrows pointed<\/p>\n<p>In your darling direction,<\/p>\n<p>It would instead be me<\/p>\n<p>Crowned celluloid queen,<\/p>\n<p>Winsome paper dolly supreme,<\/p>\n<p>Saucer-eyed juvenile party cream,<\/p>\n<p>In dryadic, moon-white polyester.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And in the cafe collision crises,<\/p>\n<p>Of cigarette cyclist and bubble car &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Outside, on the lunch-hour terrace &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>That turns heads sour,<\/p>\n<p>Mascara manic<\/p>\n<p>And skin into a greasy, lipstick-red<\/p>\n<p>Pavement kiss,<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses would scream,<\/p>\n<p>Not for him or you, but me,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKill me, but make me beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is my billets doux,<\/p>\n<p>A 21<sup>st<\/sup> Century reject\u2019s valentines verse<\/p>\n<p>For the girlsoul wedged<\/p>\n<p>Between gelatin and fixer,<\/p>\n<p>Flash and frame &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>A shadow sexily<\/p>\n<p>Smiling between two worlds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You could be the anonymous head<\/p>\n<p>In my cameo pendant, Penelope,<\/p>\n<p>Carved with diadem and frill.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve still got the potential to thrill,<\/p>\n<p>With hands in a forever groping<\/p>\n<p>Slow ballerina pantomime.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ellena Deeley<\/strong> is a native of Pontypridd, South Wales. She is currently studying English Literature at the University of Exeter and has had her work published in the university arts magazine as well as several other online publications.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Penelope Tree, &nbsp; I wish I were you and you were me, So, in the heat of Carnaby Street in 1963, When the cabs and salesgirls Gawp At monochrome-dramatic billboard dreams And the synaptic circuits fire green, Like blinking traffic arrows pointed In your darling direction, It would instead be me Crowned celluloid queen, [&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-2541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541","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=2541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2542,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2541\/revisions\/2542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}