{"id":3152,"date":"2012-09-14T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-14T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2012-09-06T09:03:49","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T09:03:49","slug":"marcelle-olivier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/marcelle-olivier\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcelle Olivier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>observatory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>winter in sutherland<\/p>\n<p>drives the sheep<\/p>\n<p>to the skies \u2013<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>the warmth of some suns<\/p>\n<p>even at a distance<\/p>\n<p>can overwhelm:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>invited in from their kraals<\/p>\n<p>they scatter as if free.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>on the edge of town inside<\/p>\n<p>a roofless hut i sat down<\/p>\n<p>wanting to count them,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>and smartly you herded together<\/p>\n<p>the coordinates, tracked<\/p>\n<p>the mirror to let me see.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>you were happy with my<\/p>\n<p>luck, happy with me.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>how selectively unnatural<\/p>\n<p>this history now seems.<\/p>\n<p>isangelous darwinism:<\/p>\n<p>jupiter, io, ganymede.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marcelle Olivier<\/strong> is a poet and archaeologist. She divides her timebetween the UK and South Africa, and you can read more of her poetry in, amongst others, <em>Oxford Poetry, New Contrast<\/em>, and <em>Carapace.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; observatory &nbsp; winter in sutherland drives the sheep to the skies \u2013 &nbsp; the warmth of some suns even at a distance can overwhelm: &nbsp; invited in from their kraals they scatter as if free. &nbsp; on the edge of town inside a roofless hut i sat down wanting to count them, &nbsp; and [&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-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","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=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}