{"id":3640,"date":"2012-11-28T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3640"},"modified":"2012-11-23T11:32:05","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T11:32:05","slug":"austin-mccarron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/austin-mccarron\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin McCarron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Air is Blind with Cities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The air is blind with cities.<\/p>\n<p>I see sparks of meat, scattered<\/p>\n<p>like body\u2019s of rain, with tiny voices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I see starving faces, bluer than hills<\/p>\n<p>of sand, of perfectly formed deserts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The hunger is calm, like pictures of<\/p>\n<p>water, of kissing wells,<\/p>\n<p>but what of the sea<\/p>\n<p>rising and the fire seeing and seeing?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is the God of kitchens, the seer<\/p>\n<p>of poverty, the prophet of night,<\/p>\n<p>rushing through the streets in clouds of music<\/p>\n<p>like a broken spring, tenderly restored.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin McCarron<\/strong>&#8216;s poems have appeared in numerous magazines such as Snakeskin, Van Gogh&#8217;s Ear, Camel Saloon and others. \u00a0He lives in London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Air is Blind with Cities The air is blind with cities. I see sparks of meat, scattered like body\u2019s of rain, with tiny voices. &nbsp; I see starving faces, bluer than hills of sand, of perfectly formed deserts. &nbsp; The hunger is calm, like pictures of water, of kissing wells, but [&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-3640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640","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=3640"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3644,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3640\/revisions\/3644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}