{"id":2699,"date":"2012-06-14T12:13:57","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T12:13:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2012-06-14T14:03:39","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T14:03:39","slug":"2699","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/2699\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Stainton"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kitchen
\n<\/strong>
\noh my love in a saucepan of soup
\nwe tryst
\nagain<\/p>\n

sell me the basis of frost, say
\n‘you and your fonts\u00a0can freak out on pot’<\/p>\n

i expect you may be right.<\/p>\n

violence begins in the home oh dear
\nwith a neutered animal
\nraised on genetics\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my baby<\/p>\n

there falls there falls a monsoon
\nof parts in the crook where we cook
\nin the nook<\/p>\n

where we kill each other<\/p>\n

woo hoo\u00a0do you refuse to do
\nanything quite so naked as love?<\/p>\n

make another sound equally appealing
\ndarling, there
\nin the fulcrum yes yes yes<\/p>\n

although i will force the dog to smile
\nas a cure as a cure<\/p>\n

and keep wiping my chin<\/p>\n

although loneliness is a bowl of soup
\non a kitchen table that doesn’t exist<\/p>\n

i love you there is nothing simpler<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

<\/strong> Ben Stainton<\/strong>‘s pamphlet,\u00a0The Backlists<\/em><\/a>,\u00a0is available from <\/em>The Knives Forks and Spoons Press.\u00a0 <\/em>His poems have appeared in The Rialto<\/em> and\u00a0Stop Sharpening Your Knives<\/em> and are forthcoming in Coin Opera 2<\/a><\/em> and Lung Jazz: Young British Poets for Oxfam<\/a><\/em>. He currently owns a cheese the size of a human head.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kitchen oh my love in a saucepan of soup we tryst again sell me the basis of frost, say ‘you and your fonts\u00a0can freak out on pot’ i expect you may be right. violence begins in the home oh dear with a neutered animal raised on genetics\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 my baby there falls there falls a monsoon […]<\/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-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2707,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}