{"id":2799,"date":"2012-07-04T15:31:26","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:31:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2799"},"modified":"2012-07-04T15:31:26","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T15:31:26","slug":"emma-lee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/emma-lee\/","title":{"rendered":"Emma Lee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Poet Rehearses her Rejection of a Novelist\u2019s proposal<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nMy dear\u2026 friend<br \/>\n(keep it impersonal)<br \/>\nit would be quite impossible.<br \/>\n(Impossible? Never mind, carry on.)<br \/>\nI know what you want, what you meant<br \/>\n(Know? Presumptuous, but I do know.)<br \/>\nBut it wouldn\u2019t work.<br \/>\nI know you\u2019re being practical:<br \/>\nthinking more of an alliance<br \/>\n(Arrangement? No, alliance.)<br \/>\nMy status would give you roots<br \/>\nlegitimise your cultivation as a gentlemen.<br \/>\nMy money, a trellis to guide<br \/>\nyour growth, free of the need for a job.<br \/>\nYou\u2019d say you\u2019d offer protection,<br \/>\nstop love making a fool of me<br \/>\n(but it may already have done).<br \/>\nMy poor health would bore you,<br \/>\nyou\u2019d find another lover<br \/>\nbefore I could finish a cigarette<br \/>\n(and I don\u2019t love you).<br \/>\nI don\u2019t love you.<\/p>\n<p>Now to try again,<br \/>\nwithout my lover\u2019s image<br \/>\nwhispering words I want him to say<br \/>\nI can\u2019t let myself imagine<br \/>\nthis proposal is his.<\/p>\n<p>My dear owlish friend,<br \/>\nI cannot marry you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Emma Lee<\/strong>\u2019s poetry collection, <em>Yellow Torchlight and the Blue<\/em> is available from Original Plus (UK). \u00a0She blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/emmalee1.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/emmalee1.wordpress.com\/<\/a>. \u00a0Emma found herself hanging around with bands until she swapped beer-sticky floors for the comforts of cinemas. \u00a0She lives in Leicester<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Poet Rehearses her Rejection of a Novelist\u2019s proposal My dear\u2026 friend (keep it impersonal) it would be quite impossible. (Impossible? Never mind, carry on.) I know what you want, what you meant (Know? Presumptuous, but I do know.) But it wouldn\u2019t work. I know you\u2019re being practical: thinking more of an alliance [&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-2799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799","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=2799"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2801,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2799\/revisions\/2801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}