{"id":4279,"date":"2013-03-31T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-03-31T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2013-03-27T10:01:42","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T10:01:42","slug":"kathy-gee-jim-newcombe-on-an-easter-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/kathy-gee-jim-newcombe-on-an-easter-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathy Gee &#038; Jim Newcombe on an Easter Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Aura<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nUnexpectedly<br \/>\noutside the supermarket<br \/>\nthrough the sliding doors<br \/>\nI see a friend recently<br \/>\nreturned from retreat.<\/p>\n<p>In that momentary flash<br \/>\nof recognition<br \/>\nit is not his face I see<br \/>\nbut a still bright light<br \/>\nbody halo, silver white<br \/>\nwith shopping trolley.<\/p>\n<p>Stepping forward, I dismiss<br \/>\nthe ridiculous &#8211;<br \/>\ncivil servants don\u2019t see auras.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kathy Gee<\/strong> started writing creatively (but secretly) in 2007, joined the Worcestershire Stanza in 2011, and has since had poems accepted by various magazines and anthologies. Her blog\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordstring.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordString<\/a>\u00a0is an experimental vehicle for occasional video poems.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Infant\u2019s Faith<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I was a child my mother told me<br \/>\nthat clouds were angels sailing in the sky.<br \/>\nLike Nordic ships upon a sapphire sea<br \/>\nthey voyaged into the unknown, endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>It followed then that God was sunlight, freed<br \/>\nin its blinding beauty, or else distilled<br \/>\nin fleecewarm, soldery scoops of creamy cloud,<br \/>\nstriking the city\u2019s minarets with gold.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in believing. I believe<br \/>\nin that sky so truly endless, where no wind<br \/>\nobscures a heaven that\u2019s no more given to deceive<br \/>\nthan it is less real for having been imagined.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Newcombe<\/strong> was born in Derby in 1976 and now lives in Chiswick, West London. He is currently involved in recording a <em>Librivox<\/em> audio anthology of the work of the English visionary William Blake. He has had work published in <em>Staple, Poetry Nottingham, Tears in the Fence, The Bohemian Aesthetic, Shot Glass Journal, The Poetry Box, Mobiu<\/em>s, <em>The Stone &amp; Star <\/em>and<em> The Recusant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Aura Unexpectedly outside the supermarket through the sliding doors I see a friend recently returned from retreat. In that momentary flash of recognition it is not his face I see but a still bright light body halo, silver white with shopping trolley. Stepping forward, I dismiss the ridiculous &#8211; civil servants don\u2019t see auras. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4292,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}