{"id":47,"date":"2012-01-08T16:24:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=47"},"modified":"2012-01-08T16:24:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-08T16:24:14","slug":"some-darkness-from-claire-walker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/some-darkness-from-claire-walker\/","title":{"rendered":"Some darkness from Claire Walker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Woman Who Loved Every Man<\/span><br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>I collect them. <br \/>Devote myself to it.<br \/>Reminders on corkboards, pinned <br \/>by pointed tacks as tokens of attention.<br \/>Sometimes in scrapbooks:<br \/>Hair gently trimmed during sleep,<br \/>A pressed flower from a poet,<br \/>The butt from a stranger whose lips I watched<br \/>encircle cigarettes all night. <br \/>Closest memories I line on a shelf.<br \/>Alphabetised.<br \/>Who came where and when. <br \/>Bracelet of pearls,<br \/>Underwear, torn,<br \/>bookend the types I have loved. <br \/>If needed I\u2019ll take something more<br \/>from those who can\u2019t see the attraction.<br \/>They stay with me<br \/>in dark corners of my mind.<br \/>Skeletons encased in wood.<br \/>Bones buried in the garden. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><br style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Claire Walker<\/span> fits writing in around raising her young family and has discovered discipline is the only way to make time to write! She attends a local writers\u2019 group and has recently started to be published. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Woman Who Loved Every Man&nbsp;I collect them. Devote myself to it.Reminders on corkboards, pinned by pointed tacks as tokens of attention.Sometimes in scrapbooks:Hair gently trimmed during sleep,A pressed flower from a poet,The butt from a stranger whose lips I watchedencircle cigarettes all night. Closest memories I line on a shelf.Alphabetised.Who came where and when. [&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-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","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=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}