{"id":2840,"date":"2012-07-15T12:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T12:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2012-07-10T09:56:41","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T09:56:41","slug":"sonia-jarema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sonia-jarema\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Jarema"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Kid on the Tower Block<\/strong><br \/>\nBalletic you tested each stair<br \/>\nwith toe, pad and heel.<br \/>\nYour hand glided the banister<br \/>\nas you stopped to shake sunshine<br \/>\ninto the dark staircase.<br \/>\nYour shirt held clouds<br \/>\nyou\u2019d clung onto on the rooftop.<br \/>\nI could see the skyline<br \/>\nin your legs poised like cranes.<br \/>\nThat evening you brought in<br \/>\nthe dank brook on your trousers.<br \/>\nYou told me how the water<br \/>\ndrank you as you waded her length<br \/>\nto find the unfamiliar way home.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sonia Jarema<\/strong> was born in Luton to Ukrainian parents. Her poems have appeared on-line here and Every Day Poets and in print in several anthologies. In 2010 she was shortlisted for The Enfield Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This poem was published previously online at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/context-comment\/articles\/poetry-from-art-online-anthology-2012\">http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/context-comment\/articles\/poetry-from-art-online-anthology-2012<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; New Kid on the Tower Block Balletic you tested each stair with toe, pad and heel. Your hand glided the banister as you stopped to shake sunshine into the dark staircase. Your shirt held clouds you\u2019d clung onto on the rooftop. I could see the skyline in your legs poised like cranes. [&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-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","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=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2845,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions\/2845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}