{"id":2725,"date":"2012-06-20T14:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2012-06-20T14:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-06-20T14:23:19","slug":"ruth-aylett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ruth-aylett\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruth Aylett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>North Berwick Law <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Climbing the volcano\u2019s<\/p>\n<p>Constipated gut, a basalt core<\/p>\n<p>That still resists the everyday<\/p>\n<p>Seduction of the rain<\/p>\n<p>Smoothing and dissolving.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Half-way up asking<\/p>\n<p>Why are we doing this?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Our feet slide on<\/p>\n<p>Liquorish-drop rabbit turds<\/p>\n<p>The path decays into<\/p>\n<p>Featureless grass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As if from the top<\/p>\n<p>We could see our lives: whole.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ruth Aylett<\/strong> has been writing poems and short stories for many years but is fairly new to publication. She lives in Edinburgh where she teaches university-level computing, thinks another world is possible and that the one we have is due some changes. For more on her writing see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.macs.hw.ac.uk\/~ruth\/writing.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span>here.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>North Berwick Law &nbsp; Climbing the volcano\u2019s Constipated gut, a basalt core That still resists the everyday Seduction of the rain Smoothing and dissolving. &nbsp; Half-way up asking Why are we doing this? &nbsp; Our feet slide on Liquorish-drop rabbit turds The path decays into Featureless grass. &nbsp; As if from the top We could [&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-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","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=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2727,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}