{"id":2702,"date":"2012-06-15T12:00:44","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T12:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2012-06-14T13:08:52","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T13:08:52","slug":"christopher-barnes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/christopher-barnes\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Barnes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Brainer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This blanched anteroom\u2019s irksome,<br \/>\nA shrine to Edison \u2019s trails<br \/>\nWith cats and dogs.<br \/>\nSquishy seals, a queasy camera-lens.<\/p>\n<p>Crabbedness of scalding muscle.<br \/>\nWater-salt that sopped electrodes<br \/>\nIs dust. \u00a0You have passed into a frame.<br \/>\nThe body streams<br \/>\nAs life empties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(from the Electric Chair poems)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Barnes<\/strong> won a Northern Arts writers award in 1998. \u00a0 Each year he reads for Proudwords lesbian and gay writing festival. His first collection of poems <em>Lovebites<\/em> is published by Chanticleer.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brainer This blanched anteroom\u2019s irksome, A shrine to Edison \u2019s trails With cats and dogs. Squishy seals, a queasy camera-lens. Crabbedness of scalding muscle. Water-salt that sopped electrodes Is dust. \u00a0You have passed into a frame. The body streams As life empties. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; (from the Electric Chair poems) &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Christopher Barnes [&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-2702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702","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=2702"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2706,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2702\/revisions\/2706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}