{"id":418,"date":"2011-10-22T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2011-10-22T12:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=418"},"modified":"2012-03-31T13:53:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T13:53:39","slug":"millions-jpg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/millions-jpg\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions of eyes henning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com\/_photos\/millions.sized.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">vii.\u00a0 millions\u00a0of\u00a0eyes, henning<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">dear henning,<\/span><\/p>\n<p>i wonder if in germany you ever watch old american<br \/>\ngangster films.\u00a0\u00a0 in them, everything is heavy \u2026 cars,<br \/>\ntelephones, and radios.\u00a0 in them, men take unexpected<br \/>\ntaxi rides, light streaked across their faces so we can<br \/>\nknow their full intent.<\/p>\n<p>before they ever leave, they tell their women they ve<br \/>\ngotten themselves in a jam, or they must collect the<br \/>\ndough, and they ll be back shortly.<\/p>\n<p>often, they re shot at the base of stairs, at entrances to<br \/>\nbuildings that were meant to save them.<\/p>\n<p>when their women hear the knock on the door, a<br \/>\nviolin plays.\u00a0 the women pause, sequins on their<br \/>\nclothes sparkling like millions of eyes.<\/p>\n<p>the women open the door and say \u2026<br \/>\ncome in, i ve been waiting for you.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>*<a href=\"http:\/\/theresawilliams.yolasite.com\/theresas-blog.php\">Theresa Williams&#8217;<\/a><\/strong> work has appeared or will appear soon in many magazines, including Chattahoochee Review, Hunger Mountain, Midwestern Gothic, Danse Macabre, and The Sun. \u00a0Her novel, The Secret of Hurricanes was a finalist for the Paterson Fiction Prize. \u00a0She has a husband, dogs, and cats, and stays up late at night, writing.<\/p>\n<p>Theresa says: &#8220;millions of eyes, henning&#8221; is part vii of series of epistolary prose poems called &#8220;the eternal network&#8221; (which is what the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mail-art.de\/\">mailart<\/a> community calls itself). \u00a0\u00a0 The poem was sent through the mail to a man in Germany, a complete stranger I met on a mailart site, called Henning and was accompanied by mailart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; vii.\u00a0 millions\u00a0of\u00a0eyes, henning dear henning, i wonder if in germany you ever watch old american gangster films.\u00a0\u00a0 in them, everything is heavy \u2026 cars, telephones, and radios.\u00a0 in them, men take unexpected taxi rides, light streaked across their faces so we can know their full intent. before they ever leave, they tell their women [&hellip;]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2051,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}