{"id":2617,"date":"2012-06-02T15:58:01","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:58:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2617"},"modified":"2012-06-02T15:58:01","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:58:01","slug":"leti-mortimer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/leti-mortimer\/","title":{"rendered":"Leti Mortimer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On the realisation of absolute insignificance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cool water sweeping between half open fingers<br \/>\nLike a goldfish with chewed fins I swam.<br \/>\nI could never grasp the cupped hand<br \/>\nIt took me twice as long as you to get to the rock.<\/p>\n<p>With a sunny halo, you reached out<br \/>\nClasped my arm<br \/>\nBarnacles scratched skin as I clambered up.<br \/>\nThe evaporated sea already leaving salty residue<br \/>\nOn your tan skin in the heat.<\/p>\n<p>My half wet head fit neatly into<br \/>\nThe curve of your collar.<br \/>\nAbove us, a forgiving, endless expanse of blue,<br \/>\nBelow us, the finite H2O lay heavy on its bed<br \/>\nAnd we were two,<br \/>\nA Copernican revelation<br \/>\nIn a universe of blue.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leti Mortimer<\/strong> is a third year English with Creative writing student at Brunel University. She runs a Poetry Society at the university and has read at and helped to organise a night of poetry with Benjamin Zephaniah.\u00a0\u00a0 She has recently become an editor for The Poetry Archive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the realisation of absolute insignificance Cool water sweeping between half open fingers Like a goldfish with chewed fins I swam. I could never grasp the cupped hand It took me twice as long as you to get to the rock. With a sunny halo, you reached out Clasped my arm Barnacles scratched skin as [&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-2617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617","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=2617"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2617\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}