{"id":3121,"date":"2012-09-09T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3121"},"modified":"2012-09-09T15:02:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-09T15:02:39","slug":"ivor-murrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ivor-murrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivor Murrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sickle-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3122\" title=\"sickle-3\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sickle-3-300x297.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sickle-3-300x297.jpg 300w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sickle-3-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/sickle-3-1024x1016.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Proximity\u00a0 &#8211; Malta, May 2<\/strong><strong>nd<\/strong><strong> 2012 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The past chides indulgence on the tenth floor<\/p>\n<p>in the five- star comfort of the afternoon siesta<\/p>\n<p>the hot air is scratched by an unknown\u00a0 sound<\/p>\n<p>schrik &#8211;\u00a0 schrik, schrik \u2013\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 schrik.<\/p>\n<p>An irregular beat,\u00a0 not mechanical<\/p>\n<p>prods\u00a0 animalistic memory,<\/p>\n<p>does a giant insect\u00a0 graze the balcony?<\/p>\n<p>The tourist timidly checks his territory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a tiny field canyonned by buildings<\/p>\n<p>a sickle crops ripe barley in slow bites.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ivor Murrell<\/strong> has written poetry for over 40 years, but could only give it the time it demanded when he took early retirement, which also allowed him to build his website<a href=\"http:\/\/www.versifier.co.uk\/\"> www.versifier.co.uk<\/a> to share his writing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Proximity\u00a0 &#8211; Malta, May 2nd 2012 The past chides indulgence on the tenth floor in the five- star comfort of the afternoon siesta the hot air is scratched by an unknown\u00a0 sound schrik &#8211;\u00a0 schrik, schrik \u2013\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0 schrik. An irregular beat,\u00a0 [&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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121","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=3121"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3121\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}