{"id":314,"date":"2011-07-13T08:51:43","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T08:51:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=314"},"modified":"2011-07-13T08:51:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T08:51:43","slug":"andrew-pidouxs-gravity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/andrew-pidouxs-gravity\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrew Pidoux's 'Gravity'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gravity<\/span>
Patrick Moore, amateur astronomer and broadcaster (b.1923)<\/span><\/font>

Planetary in his demeanor, <\/span>
Humped in a puckered leather chair,                    <\/span>
Patrick Moore contemplates the universe <\/span>
In all its known glory.<\/span>

In the crater of his eye, <\/span>
A monocle clings like a sliver of ice<\/span>
Capable of supporting<\/span>
Unbearably slender life.<\/span>

How old must he be? Older than you and I  <\/span>
By many moons. And what a strain <\/span>
His big habitual heart must feel, <\/span>
What a debt it owes to gravity.<\/span>


*Andrew Pidoux<\/span> is an Eric Gregory Award and Crashaw Prize winner. His book <\/span>Year of the Lion<\/span><\/a> is published by Salt.<\/span>
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GravityPatrick Moore, amateur astronomer and broadcaster (b.1923)Planetary in his demeanor, Humped in a puckered leather chair,                    Patrick Moore contemplates the universe In all its known glory.In the crater of his eye, A monocle clings like a sliver of iceCapable of supportingUnbearably slender life.How old must he be? Older than you and […]<\/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-314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314","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=314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}