{"id":4503,"date":"2013-05-15T09:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T09:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4503"},"modified":"2013-05-08T17:17:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:17:36","slug":"john-w-sexton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-w-sexton\/","title":{"rendered":"John W. Sexton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Unseen, But Here<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My autistic son has wings of shadow.<br \/>\nI see them when he stands in sunlight;<br \/>\nthey blossom behind him like dark clots.<br \/>\nHe giggles under the full sun<br \/>\nand a crown of glare anoints him.<\/p>\n<p>He stands on the cracks of the pavement<br \/>\nholding the world in place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John W. Sexton<\/strong> lives in the Republic of Ireland and is the author of four previous poetry collections. His fifth collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salmonpoetry.com\/details.php?ID=298&amp;a=244\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Offspring of the Moon<\/em><\/a>, is published by Salmon Poetry. In 2007 he was awarded a Patrick and Katherine Kavanagh Fellowship in Poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Unseen, But Here My autistic son has wings of shadow. I see them when he stands in sunlight; they blossom behind him like dark clots. He giggles under the full sun and a crown of glare anoints him. He stands on the cracks of the pavement holding the world in place. &nbsp; &nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"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-4503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4503"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4503\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}