{"id":2857,"date":"2012-07-19T12:00:51","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T12:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2012-07-10T14:09:03","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T14:09:03","slug":"myfanwy-fox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/myfanwy-fox\/","title":{"rendered":"Myfanwy Fox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kasaba Bay<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nBats pour like furry water<br \/>\nfrom a crack beneath<br \/>\nour rondavel\u2019s tin roof<br \/>\nas sunset eases sweltering heat.<br \/>\nSlip-streamed by stink of mosquito-<br \/>\nblood guano they fall and fly<br \/>\nin a whispering, leather-scuffed, silver river,<\/p>\n<p>Colours evaporate;<br \/>\nshadows slink into listening.<br \/>\nElephants step soft-footed<br \/>\ncentre stage, picking high pods<br \/>\nfrom spine-guarded filigree acacias.<br \/>\nPennant winged nightjars\u2019 silhouettes<br \/>\nbob against indigo imagination<br \/>\nlike Hammer Horror elastic vampires<br \/>\narchived in black and white.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Myfanwy Fox<\/strong> can\u2019t remember if she learned the rules in the first place before forgetting them. She blogs on poetry and other things at <a href=\"http:\/\/myfanwyfox.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox Tales<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Kasaba Bay Bats pour like furry water from a crack beneath our rondavel\u2019s tin roof as sunset eases sweltering heat. Slip-streamed by stink of mosquito- blood guano they fall and fly in a whispering, leather-scuffed, silver river, Colours evaporate; shadows slink into listening. Elephants step soft-footed centre stage, picking high pods from spine-guarded [&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-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2859,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}