{"id":329,"date":"2011-07-28T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-07-28T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-28T17:00:00","slug":"roberta-lawsons-lotus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roberta-lawsons-lotus\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberta Lawson&#39;s &#39;Lotus&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Lotus<\/span><br style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">In our palms, small&nbsp; talismans. In our palms, small found objects: a photo, a gemstone, a&nbsp; discarded note. Hand to hand we pass back and forth these tokens as&nbsp; substitutes for love. Here we do not mention the cold \u2014 our words&nbsp; are only for our own ears and we ration them carefully.&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Once a mute man&nbsp; placed a lotus flower in my hair, walked away. Once somebody&#39;s mother&nbsp; took the earrings she was wearing, threaded them through my lobes. We&nbsp; have no common language of words. We make do. We better than make do.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Roberta Lawson<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> lives in Brighton in the UK. Her writing can be found in places such as <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sein Und Werden<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Prick of the Spindle<\/span>. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Lotus<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> first appeared in the &#39;52|250: A Flash Year&#39; project. <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LotusIn our palms, small&nbsp; talismans. In our palms, small found objects: a photo, a gemstone, a&nbsp; discarded note. Hand to hand we pass back and forth these tokens as&nbsp; substitutes for love. Here we do not mention the cold \u2014 our words&nbsp; are only for our own ears and we ration them carefully.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Once [&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-329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329","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=329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}