{"id":419,"date":"2011-10-23T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=419"},"modified":"2011-10-23T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-23T11:00:00","slug":"landing-by-sonia-hendy-issac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/landing-by-sonia-hendy-issac\/","title":{"rendered":"'Landing' by Sonia Hendy-Issac"},"content":{"rendered":"

Landing<\/span>

It\u2019s in the brittle light that forces your eyes<\/span>
to crack, squint for cover, that you know<\/span>
the day\u2019s debate about a woman eating<\/span>
herself to death, will not be resolved;<\/span>
 <\/span>
when the crease of the door next to yours,<\/span>
will not result in half-conceited attempts<\/span>
at conversation by the water cooler, wage-slave<\/span>
camaraderie or company conspiracy. <\/span>
 <\/span>
There is nothing in this isolation that cannot be<\/span>
found in the shallow breath of your own contempt,<\/span>
or the aching view of the sepia cityscape.<\/span>
As the streetlights wink on, trading energy<\/span>
 <\/span>
with each fluorescent office bulb, the autumn<\/span>
unfolds itself in the brush of leaves<\/span>
on the rooftop; as you climb, you know<\/span>
there will be something beautiful<\/span>
 <\/span>
in landing awkwardly.  <\/span>
<\/p>\n



*Sonia Hendy-Isaac<\/span> has an MA in Creative & Critical Writing. Her poetry has been anthologised and widely published in journals; her most recent work can be found in Snakeskin, Equinox & Neon. <\/span>

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LandingIt\u2019s in the brittle light that forces your eyesto crack, squint for cover, that you knowthe day\u2019s debate about a woman eatingherself to death, will not be resolved; when the crease of the door next to yours,will not result in half-conceited attemptsat conversation by the water cooler, wage-slavecamaraderie or company conspiracy.  There is nothing in this […]<\/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-419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419","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=419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}