{"id":2802,"date":"2012-07-05T13:51:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2802"},"modified":"2012-07-05T13:51:25","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T13:51:25","slug":"sean-colletti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sean-colletti\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Colletti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quicklime<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A tanker is carrying quicklime and hits a lamppost in Ashfield<br \/>\nat 19:00. You are watching TV in Ashfield. It is 19:00.<\/p>\n<p>Quicklime. Freshman biology slides off the tight-<br \/>\nropes of your synapses like sand. Quicksand.<\/p>\n<p>You are no longer in Ashfield. You are in a pit of limes, sinking.<br \/>\nYou are yelling at the Golden Retriever, but she is licking herself.<\/p>\n<p>You are almost completely submerged. You are terrified<br \/>\nthat quicklime might have nothing to do with biology.<\/p>\n<p>There is no Wikipedia at the bottom of this pit.<br \/>\nThere is no wireless signal. There is no \u2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sean Colletti<\/strong> has studied English with Creative Writing at California State University Channel Islands and the University of Birmingham. He is the editor and founder of a new poetry e-journal, <a href=\"http:\/\/thecamarilloreview.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Camarillo Review<\/em><\/a>. His poetry reviews have appeared in <em>Stride<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Quicklime A tanker is carrying quicklime and hits a lamppost in Ashfield at 19:00. You are watching TV in Ashfield. It is 19:00. Quicklime. Freshman biology slides off the tight- ropes of your synapses like sand. Quicksand. You are no longer in Ashfield. You are in a pit of limes, sinking. You are [&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-2802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802","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=2802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2804,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2802\/revisions\/2804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}