{"id":4773,"date":"2013-06-24T09:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T09:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4773"},"modified":"2013-06-24T10:25:07","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T10:25:07","slug":"clare-crossman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/clare-crossman\/","title":{"rendered":"Clare Crossman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr Glovers\u2019 Sabbatical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking time for himself. \u00a0No evidence of habitation,<br \/>\nthe rented cottage garden is high with feverfew.<\/p>\n<p>In the afternoons he visits the long Norfolk beaches<br \/>\nthrows pebbles back for those he could not mend.<\/p>\n<p>Here there are places to get lost. Outside, beyond<br \/>\na tree lined cul de sac, a path where hayfields<\/p>\n<p>tilt and rise beyond the flint, marked by porches<br \/>\nand swifts, the doors to other lives.<\/p>\n<p>His tradition one apothecary, dispensing foxglove,<br \/>\nwillow; digitalis purpurea, salix salicacae,<\/p>\n<p>for cardiac and inflammation against disease<br \/>\nand damp, their force was true.<\/p>\n<p>The summer roads have pulled him out to sit<br \/>\nin the shade of empty churches, no need for a clean white shirt.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018First do no harm\u2019. He sleeps the sleep of poppies,<br \/>\nlies down in the garden. Enjoys the distance.<\/p>\n<p>one also of heart and head, hands on the steering wheel,<br \/>\ncrossing the narrow ground.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clare Crossman<\/strong> lives near Cambridge. She has published three books of poetry: <em>Landscapes <\/em>Redbeck Press,<em> Going Back<\/em> Firewater Press, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/190735607X\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Shape of Us<\/em> <\/a>Shoestring Press 2010. She is currently working on a next collection. In 2012 She was a prizewinner in the Second Light Poetry competition. A sequence of poems\u00a0 <em>Artists Books<\/em>\u00a0 was recently published in morphrog6. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies. She runs a writing and performance group at The Tavern Art Gallery Cambridgeshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Dr Glovers\u2019 Sabbatical Taking time for himself. \u00a0No evidence of habitation, the rented cottage garden is high with feverfew. In the afternoons he visits the long Norfolk beaches throws pebbles back for those he could not mend. Here there are places to get lost. Outside, beyond a tree lined cul de sac, [&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-4773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773","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=4773"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4775,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4773\/revisions\/4775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}