{"id":3834,"date":"2012-12-24T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3834"},"modified":"2012-12-21T09:54:14","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T09:54:14","slug":"jan-harris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jan-harris\/","title":{"rendered":"Jan Harris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mothers know the mercurial properties of time<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nFrail baby bird in your incubator,<br \/>\narms bent like wings, unfledged and translucent,<br \/>\nyour face foreshadows old age,<br \/>\nas if time must run backwards<br \/>\nfor you to catch up.<\/p>\n<p>Suspended, we hold our breath,<br \/>\nlook only seconds ahead.<br \/>\n\u201cGive her time\u201d, they say,<br \/>\nso we place a scintilla in glass<br \/>\nand hang it from a thread.<\/p>\n<p>With years shimmering behind us<br \/>\nI glimpse you at the window of your room.<br \/>\nRaven black, you stretch <a href=\"https:\/\/drdavidbrady.com\/alprazolam-xanax-1mg\/\">buy xanax no prescription<\/a> into the night,<br \/>\nthe arc of your back a yearning,<br \/>\nsomething feral in your eye.<\/p>\n<p>An echo of your birth takes flight.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s too soon,\u201d I tell the quicksilver mirror<br \/>\nbefore my reflection ghosts away.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jan Harris<\/strong> lives in Nottinghamshire and writes poetry, flash fiction and short stories. \u00a0Her work has appeared in <em>14 Magazine, nth Position, Popshot and Mslexia<\/em>. \u00a0Her poem \u2018Poppies\u2019 was commended in the Poetry Kit Competition 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Mothers know the mercurial properties of time Frail baby bird in your incubator, arms bent like wings, unfledged and translucent, your face foreshadows old age, as if time must run backwards for you to catch up. Suspended, we hold our breath, look only seconds ahead. \u201cGive her time\u201d, they say, so we [&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-3834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834","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=3834"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3834\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}