{"id":2679,"date":"2012-06-13T10:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T10:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2679"},"modified":"2012-06-13T14:00:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T14:00:35","slug":"valerie-morton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/valerie-morton\/","title":{"rendered":"Valerie Morton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Overnight<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>An exquisite architect<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">steals<\/p>\n<p>through the window<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">tiptoes<\/p>\n<p>across our borders<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">and creates<\/p>\n<p>a beaded shanty home<\/p>\n<p>hung with dew.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>But you shudder<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">at such<\/p>\n<p>perfect cunning,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">slam<\/p>\n<p>the casement<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">on my rapture<\/p>\n<p>and just like that<\/p>\n<p>blow it away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valerie Morton<\/strong> has been most recently published in <em>South Bank Poetry, The New Writer, Indigo Dreams, Ver Poets<\/em> and the Word Aid Anthology <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/1904662153\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">Not Only the Dark<\/a>.<\/em> She was runner up in the 2011 Essex Poetry Festival competition. She runs a Creative Writing group for a mental health charity and is working on publishing an anthology of their work shortly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overnight &nbsp; An exquisite architect steals through the window tiptoes across our borders and creates a beaded shanty home hung with dew. &nbsp; But you shudder at such perfect cunning, slam the casement on my rapture and just like that blow it away. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Valerie Morton has been most recently published in South [&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-2679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679","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=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2698,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions\/2698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}