{"id":414,"date":"2011-10-20T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=414"},"modified":"2011-10-20T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-20T11:00:00","slug":"alison-hill-staving-off-a-natural-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/alison-hill-staving-off-a-natural-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Alison Hill 'Staving off a Natural Disaster'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Staving off a Natural Disaster<\/span>
    <\/span>
And if by some miracle<\/span>
the sun rose again at noon<\/span>
and we started to fly backwards,<\/span>
the earth around the moon, what then?<\/span>

Would we see that particular drama <\/span>
emerging in the static atmosphere, <\/span>
huddled in our own small lives?    <\/span>
    <\/span>
Would we recognise the tilt away <\/span>
from our perceived normality,    <\/span>
towards the aching chaos?<\/span>




*Alison Hill<\/a><\/span> <\/a>is currently Poet in Residence at Kingston Libraries and runs<\/span> Rhythm & Muse<\/a>, a lively monthly event in Kingston. Her work has appeared in a range of anthologies and magazines and her pamphlet, <\/span>Peppercorn Rent<\/span>, was published by Flarestack  in 2008. <\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Staving off a Natural Disaster    And if by some miraclethe sun rose again at noonand we started to fly backwards,the earth around the moon, what then?Would we see that particular drama emerging in the static atmosphere, huddled in our own small lives?        Would we recognise the tilt away from our perceived normality,    towards the […]<\/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-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","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=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}