{"id":3188,"date":"2012-09-22T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2012-09-21T15:48:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T15:48:18","slug":"max-wallis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/max-wallis\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Wallis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>from<\/em><strong> Jack Frost and the Swans <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>III<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The mist comes in<br \/>\nlike a stranger&#8217;s hands<\/p>\n<p>and the trees are letters<br \/>\nand the sky their paper<br \/>\nand the roads are rivers<br \/>\nand the cars their boulders<br \/>\nand the houses are glass<br \/>\nand the people their statues<br \/>\nand the lakes are iced lochs<br \/>\nand the fish their explorers<br \/>\nand the fields are glaciers<br \/>\nand the walls their ridges<br \/>\nand the alleys are veins<br \/>\nand the cobbles their scales<br \/>\nand the colours all white<\/p>\n<p>like a stranger&#8217;s hands<br \/>\nthe mist comes in.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Max Wallis<\/strong>&#8216;s first pamphlet, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/190523337X\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Modern Love<\/em><\/a>, has been longlisted for the Polari First Book Prize. He is currently tweaking the final edits to his book of\u00a0children&#8217;s\u00a0book of poetry, supported by the Arts Council called <em>Jack Frost &amp; the Swans<\/em>, from which this poem is taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; from Jack Frost and the Swans III The mist comes in like a stranger&#8217;s hands and the trees are letters and the sky their paper and the roads are rivers and the cars their boulders and the houses are glass and the people their statues and the lakes are iced lochs and the fish [&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-3188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","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=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3190,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions\/3190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}