{"id":3940,"date":"2013-01-27T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T09:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=3940"},"modified":"2013-01-27T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T08:39:58","slug":"chris-sakellaridis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/chris-sakellaridis-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Sakellaridis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cryogenic Steam<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nFirst I fell from a window and thought<br \/>\nI&#8217;d never reach the ground.<\/p>\n<p>A door opened in the fog.<br \/>\nOnce inside I closed my eyes and tried to imagine<br \/>\nwhat it feels like to be dead.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow when I found myself walking the steppe<br \/>\nit wasn&#8217;t like opening my eyes. More that<br \/>\nI was slowly woken from the frost<br \/>\nby heavy blinking.<\/p>\n<p>This is when the wind started speaking.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Cryogenic-Car-park1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3944\" title=\"Cryogenic Car park\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Cryogenic-Car-park1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"448\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Cryogenic-Car-park1.jpg 448w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Cryogenic-Car-park1-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 448px) 100vw, 448px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The sky hung like the giant keyhole of a vacant door . I remember<br \/>\na violet canopy above, an alien shade, a tincture. I remember<br \/>\nwomen in hospital beds, and coughing. I remember<br \/>\nclicks of antiseptic dispensers, a bedside view over a fuming city.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s possible that I remember so that<br \/>\nI don&#8217;t lose the language of the dead.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chris Sakellaridis<\/strong> is an Anglo-Greek poet and teacher of English. His poems have appeared in Fuselit, Cyphers and The Delinquent. He is currently working on a debut collection entitled <em>\u039e\u03ad\u03bd\u03bf\u03bd\/Xenon<\/em>, an exploration of hybridity, chemistry and foreignness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Cryogenic Steam First I fell from a window and thought I&#8217;d never reach the ground. A door opened in the fog. Once inside I closed my eyes and tried to imagine what it feels like to be dead. Somehow when I found myself walking the steppe it wasn&#8217;t like opening my eyes. [&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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940","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=3940"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3943,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3940\/revisions\/3943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}