{"id":429,"date":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=429"},"modified":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T12:00:00","slug":"myfanwy-foxs-summer-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/myfanwy-foxs-summer-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Myfanwy Fox&#39;s Summer Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">In Season<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The shimmer of a sun-scorched mackerel sky<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">reflects in heat-haze off a sweating road;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">bakes plate glass windows: the shop an oven<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">cooking beach-read books, tangled strappy tops,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">\u201cRay-Bans\u201d, hot pants; smell of sweat and suntan oil;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">ice cream dribbling from a toddler\u2019s sticky <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">grip to mingle stains remaining <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">from last summer\u2019s monsoon flooding and juices<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">from a cracked lava lamp or, perhaps, <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">that stray bitch that birthed concealed <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">beneath our bulging rails of disregarded shorts.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Polystyrene packaging cracks and crumbles; <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">sticks to perspiration as we extract<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">snow globes, nativities and Christmas cards.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<br \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Myfanwy Fox<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> works in a charity shop. In her spare time she writes poetry and dreams of revolution. Her blog is at <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/myfanwyfox.wordpress.com\/%20\">http:\/\/myfanwyfox.wordpress.com\/ <\/a><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Season&nbsp;The shimmer of a sun-scorched mackerel skyreflects in heat-haze off a sweating road;bakes plate glass windows: the shop an ovencooking beach-read books, tangled strappy tops,\u201cRay-Bans\u201d, hot pants; smell of sweat and suntan oil;ice cream dribbling from a toddler\u2019s sticky grip to mingle stains remaining from last summer\u2019s monsoon flooding and juicesfrom a cracked lava [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","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=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}