{"id":4596,"date":"2013-06-01T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4596"},"modified":"2013-05-28T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2013-05-28T16:15:35","slug":"christopher-luck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/christopher-luck\/","title":{"rendered":"Christopher Luck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Homecoming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While the cheesecake thawed,<br \/>\nyou were growing cold<br \/>\non the kitchen floor.<br \/>\nOn the reddening<br \/>\nstrawberries<br \/>\nI saw the OCD<br \/>\nimpress of your<br \/>\nfingers as I opened<br \/>\nthe backdoor.<\/p>\n<p>I sat and ate a slice,<br \/>\nits cold disturbed<br \/>\nmy inner tract.<br \/>\nMy fingers brushed your<br \/>\nbloodless lips<br \/>\nbefore I made the call<br \/>\nthat told the world<br \/>\nyou were no longer<br \/>\nhere.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Christopher Luck<\/strong> has MA in Creative <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ordergenericpropeciaonline.com\">buy propecia online<\/a> Writing from Portsmouth University. He has published individual poems written during his course, as well as others\u00a0from before and afterwards. He\u00a0hopes\u00a0a collection on the colliding of cultures will follow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This poem was first published in <em>Darker Times,<\/em> February 2013.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Homecoming While the cheesecake thawed, you were growing cold on the kitchen floor. On the reddening strawberries I saw the OCD impress of your fingers as I opened the backdoor. I sat and ate a slice, its cold disturbed my inner tract. My fingers brushed your bloodless lips before I made the call [&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-4596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596","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=4596"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4624,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4596\/revisions\/4624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}