{"id":363,"date":"2011-08-30T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=363"},"modified":"2011-08-30T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T11:00:00","slug":"our-stones-by-chris-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/our-stones-by-chris-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"&#39;Our Stones&#39; by Chris Jackson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Our Stones<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Our stones are never at rest.<br \/>They\u2019ve no permission to bask in light,<br \/>to gather heat, and nurture photons.<br \/>They are displaced by the commuters\u2019 feet.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Stillness is alien, an impossibility.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The streets are never peaceful, but hum<br \/>with all that is exacted by busyness.<br \/>Competition raises dust, moves stones.<br \/>And even thought is loud static, like a<br \/>surreptitious interest rate. <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">We love money<\/span>.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>Our still-looking stones are not still,<br \/>but vibrate with recent rush and pass.<br \/>Shudder with meetings. Echo bids.<br \/>Quiet is a lunacy refused our stones.<br \/>Quiet is <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">bad for economic growth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>All our stones are on their way to elsewhere &#8211;<br \/>restless for some consummation.<br \/>They are obstacles for businessmen to kick away,<br \/>Mr Rockwell, financier, collects them in his pocket.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">For what\u2019s a stone but a unit for accounting?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Chris Jackson<\/span>: I&#39;m 31 and live in Hackney. My poetry has appeared in numerous magazines and sites including <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Ambit, Equinox, The Interpreter&#39;s House<\/span> and <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Journal<\/span>. Poems and translations are forthcoming in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Chimera, Poetry Salzburg Review<\/span>, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The French Literary Review, Assen<\/span>t and others. I read my work regularly in London and my poetry has been illustrated by the artist Russi Dordi.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Stones Our stones are never at rest.They\u2019ve no permission to bask in light,to gather heat, and nurture photons.They are displaced by the commuters\u2019 feet.Stillness is alien, an impossibility. The streets are never peaceful, but humwith all that is exacted by busyness.Competition raises dust, moves stones.And even thought is loud static, like asurreptitious interest rate. [&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-363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363","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=363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}