{"id":302,"date":"2011-06-30T21:31:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=302"},"modified":"2011-06-30T21:31:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T21:31:01","slug":"matthew-stewarts-family-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-stewarts-family-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Stewart&#39;s &#39;Family Visit&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: left; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Family Visit<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dark-tied and properly suited,<br \/>back at my in-laws\u2019 place, I\u2019m here<br \/>to make sure the flat is intact.<br \/>The same portraits are standing guard<br \/>and the same piano keys grin<br \/>with their yellowed teeth. Rosaries<br \/>lay coiled on a sunlit table<br \/>like dozing, sated rattlesnakes.<br \/>It\u2019s time to rehearse my report.<br \/>Everything\u2019s still where your mother<br \/>kept it. I lock up and head home,<br \/>humming fiercely to wrestle off<br \/>the creeping, ransacking silence.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Matthew Stewart<\/span> blogs at <a href=\"http:\/\/roguestrands.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/roguestrands.blogspot.com<\/a>. Happenstance Press have recently published his pamphlet collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.happenstancepress.com\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=428:matthew-stewart&amp;catid=29:poets&amp;Itemid=63\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Inventing Truth<\/span><\/a>.<br \/><\/font><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Family Visit Dark-tied and properly suited,back at my in-laws\u2019 place, I\u2019m hereto make sure the flat is intact.The same portraits are standing guardand the same piano keys grinwith their yellowed teeth. Rosarieslay coiled on a sunlit tablelike dozing, sated rattlesnakes.It\u2019s time to rehearse my report.Everything\u2019s still where your motherkept it. I lock up and head [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}