{"id":399,"date":"2011-10-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=399"},"modified":"2011-10-05T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-05T11:00:00","slug":"melanie-brownes-ash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/melanie-brownes-ash\/","title":{"rendered":"Melanie Browne's 'Ash'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ash <\/span>

In your poems I hear the devils\u2019 trill,<\/span>
and isn\u2019t that the charm?<\/span>

In your eyes I see volcanic ash,<\/span>
love, isn\u2019t that the draw?<\/span>

I listen to Neruda in His native tongue,<\/span>
it makes me thirsty, yet all I have is tears<\/span>

I have a tattoo of Shelly\u2019s heart on my hip,<\/span>
I dreamed you were a cloven feathered dove<\/span>

and you came and pecked at the heart,<\/span>
leaving a wound, but I still wasn\u2019t angry, love<\/span>

In your poems I hear the devil\u2019s trill<\/span>
and Joan of Arc ablaze,<\/span>

I listen to Neruda in his native tongue,<\/span>
the ash in your eyes like the Rio Azul<\/span>




*Melanie Browne<\/span> is a poet and fiction writer living in Texas.<\/span> Her words can be found across the net. She likes Whiskey. Google her.<\/span>
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Ash In your poems I hear the devils\u2019 trill,and isn\u2019t that the charm?In your eyes I see volcanic ash,love, isn\u2019t that the draw?I listen to Neruda in His native tongue,it makes me thirsty, yet all I have is tearsI have a tattoo of Shelly\u2019s heart on my hip,I dreamed you were a cloven feathered doveand […]<\/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-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","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=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}