{"id":466,"date":"2011-12-13T19:33:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=466"},"modified":"2011-12-13T19:33:00","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T19:33:00","slug":"hilary-mellon-after-selima-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/hilary-mellon-after-selima-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"Hilary Mellon after Selima Hill"},"content":{"rendered":"

Portrait of My Lover as a Waterfall<\/span>

(after Selima Hill)<\/span>

How relentless you are, O Lord,<\/span>
and how obsessively you pour yourself<\/span>
dragging everything with you, right over the<\/span>
edge and down into the flurry and the frenzy<\/span>
of your important falling.<\/span>

No time have you, O Lord,<\/span>
for the widest of rivers,<\/span>
the narrowest of streams,<\/span>
the largest of lakes,<\/span>
the smallest of fish ponds.<\/span>

No thought have you, O Lord,<\/span>
for any other sort of water.<\/span>




*Hilary Mellon<\/span> is a poet, tutor and workshop leader. Her poems have appeared in over eighty different magazines and anthologies, four pamphlet books and one full length collection. She is also a life model.<\/span>
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Portrait of My Lover as a Waterfall(after Selima Hill)How relentless you are, O Lord,and how obsessively you pour yourselfdragging everything with you, right over theedge and down into the flurry and the frenzyof your important falling.No time have you, O Lord,for the widest of rivers,the narrowest of streams,the largest of lakes,the smallest of fish ponds.No […]<\/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-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}