{"id":357,"date":"2011-08-24T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=357"},"modified":"2011-08-24T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T11:00:00","slug":"luis-cuauhtemoc-berriozabals-grain-of-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/luis-cuauhtemoc-berriozabals-grain-of-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozabal's 'Grain of Sand'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Grain of Sand<\/span>

I grew out of a grain of sand.<\/span>
My legs were small, but I<\/span>
could walk great distances<\/span>
because my stamina was<\/span>
incredible. My heart was<\/span>
too big for my body.  It made me<\/span>
lean like a thin tree with<\/span>
heavy branches. When it<\/span>
rained I would turn to mud.<\/span>
My steps grew heavy and <\/span>
I could not get too far.  I was<\/span>
washed away to the ocean.<\/span>
The fish ate me and no one<\/span>
seemed to miss me.  It was<\/span>
like I was never born.<\/span>



*Luis Cuauhtemoc Berriozaba<\/span>l<\/span>: I work in the mental health field in Los Angeles, CA.  I was born in Mexico.  I am past contributor to IS&T. My chapbooks, <\/span>Peering Into The Sun<\/span> and <\/span>Songs For Oblivion<\/span>, will be published this year by Poet's Democracy and  Alternating Current Press.  Kendra Steiner Editions published my last chapbook, <\/span>Digging A Grave<\/span>.<\/span>
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Grain of SandI grew out of a grain of sand.My legs were small, but Icould walk great distancesbecause my stamina wasincredible. My heart wastoo big for my body.  It made melean like a thin tree withheavy branches. When itrained I would turn to mud.My steps grew heavy and I could not get too far.  I […]<\/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-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","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=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}