{"id":2832,"date":"2012-07-12T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2832"},"modified":"2012-07-09T15:49:31","modified_gmt":"2012-07-09T15:49:31","slug":"josephine-corcoran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/josephine-corcoran\/","title":{"rendered":"Josephine Corcoran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What Becomes Of The Absent-Minded?<\/strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\nour houses smell of burned apples and pine forests<br \/>\ndripping through ceilings \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we carry sausages<br \/>\nfrom room to room with a feeling that<br \/>\nsomebody wrote a song about us<br \/>\nwe light ovens and cook emptiness<br \/>\nrooms become sweaty \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0raw meat sweats<br \/>\nwe remember the sausages \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we remember the ovens<br \/>\nwe forget how to spell \u2018margarine\u2019 and look at a Stork<br \/>\non a plate \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0cut in half \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in the fjord-deep cold<br \/>\nto remember \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we are not Nordic translators<\/p>\n<p>we wave \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0in case we\u2019ve met<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josephine Corcoran<\/strong> won first prize in The Stafford Poetry Competition 2012. \u00a0She lives in Trowbridge, Wiltshire. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/josephinecorcoran.wordpress.com\/\">http:\/\/josephinecorcoran.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; What Becomes Of The Absent-Minded? our houses smell of burned apples and pine forests dripping through ceilings \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we carry sausages from room to room with a feeling that somebody wrote a song about us we light ovens and cook emptiness rooms become sweaty \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0raw meat sweats we remember the sausages \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0we remember the [&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-2832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832","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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}