{"id":428,"date":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=428"},"modified":"2020-01-07T14:21:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T14:21:08","slug":"word-and-image-from-helen-pletts-and-romit-berger-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/word-and-image-from-helen-pletts-and-romit-berger-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Greyhound"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com\/HelenIvory\/greyhound-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"579\" height=\"579\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Greyhound\u2028\u00a0\u2028<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the thin rain, the theatrical frame of a greyhound; a slip of grey felt shrug on the weathering ribs, emblazoned with a voluminous pale pink shiver of ballerina. Was it you who tied these shimmering loops on the back of this withering beast, beset with a neater twist than neat becomes ? You, beak-faced, in that turtle-tail raincoat, absorbed in the black-through-wet-path, the tender rhythm of the mottled haunches, the close wash of tyres against the small ears, the sticklet-thin-to-knee-to clip-nail on the paving. Animal heart beating.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*Poem by Helen Pletts \u2028whose two collections, <em>Bottle bank <\/em>and<em> For the chiding dove<\/em>, are both\u2028published by YWO\/Legend Press (supported by The Arts Council) and\u2028available on Amazon. \u2018Bottle bank\u2019 was longlisted for The Bridport\u2028Poetry Prize 2006, under Helen\u2019s maiden name of Bannister. You are\u2028 welcome to visit www.stem-of-quietly-disarrayed-fertility.com.<\/p>\n<p>*Image by Romit Berger who says\u00a0 \u201cI am a graphic designer. I met my very dear friend, Helen Pletts, in Prague, several years ago. Helen\u2019s inspiration has led my graphic design career into that magical realm which combines illustration and poetry, and our creative wings continue to connect our souls through time and distance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Greyhound\u2028\u00a0\u2028 In the thin rain, the theatrical frame of a greyhound; a slip of grey felt shrug on the weathering ribs, emblazoned with a voluminous pale pink shiver of ballerina. Was it you who tied these shimmering loops on the back of this withering beast, beset with a neater twist than neat becomes [&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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","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=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21037,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions\/21037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}