{"id":4600,"date":"2013-06-03T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T09:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:23:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T13:23:20","slug":"colin-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Emperors of Ice<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That feeling of flying<br \/>\nin a medium thicker<br \/>\nthan mere air<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of not knowing<br \/>\nhow cold can hurt<br \/>\nif feathers fail, or fat thins<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of seeing season<br \/>\nas either all dark<br \/>\nor all light<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of hunger<br \/>\nsuppressed for the needs<br \/>\nof an egg, of a chick<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of fear<br \/>\nof the leopard seal<br \/>\nin a dim blue ambush<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of fullness<br \/>\nstuffed and overstuffed<br \/>\nbefore the long ice trek<\/p>\n<p>that feeling of belonging<br \/>\nin this howling waste \u2013<br \/>\nthat\u2019s penguin feeling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Will<\/strong> is a Dunbar based poet and publisher. Latest collection is <em>The Propriety of Weeding<\/em>, available from Red Squirrel Press. This is his website :<a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinwill.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.colinwill.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Emperors of Ice That feeling of flying in a medium thicker than mere air that feeling of not knowing how cold can hurt if feathers fail, or fat thins that feeling of seeing season as either all dark or all light that feeling of hunger suppressed for the needs of an egg, [&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-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","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=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4602,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}