{"id":4862,"date":"2013-07-09T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2013-06-30T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T11:30:21","slug":"dominic-cuthbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dominic-cuthbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominic Cuthbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>War Paint<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A bonfire burns winter;<\/p>\n<p>the man standing<\/p>\n<p>and stoking the flames<\/p>\n<p>drinks from a flask.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The smoke is sweet<\/p>\n<p>and toxic in equal amounts.<\/p>\n<p>A woman watches<\/p>\n<p>from her kitchen window,<\/p>\n<p>giving names to the shapes she sees.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In the morning<\/p>\n<p>the feral boys<\/p>\n<p>paint their faces<\/p>\n<p>with the fire pit<\/p>\n<p>and battle<\/p>\n<p>the men who burnt their homes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dominic Cuthbert<\/strong> is a third year creative writing student at The University of Derby. He is a music columnist for <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heartofglassmagazine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heart of Glass Magazine<\/a><\/em>. Dominic has been published both online and via print media. When he isn&#8217;t writing for his course he&#8217;s either working on a poem\/short story\/potential novel\/script or just listening to vinyls. Feel free to follow him on Twitter @D_Cuthbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; War Paint &nbsp; A bonfire burns winter; the man standing and stoking the flames drinks from a flask. &nbsp; The smoke is sweet and toxic in equal amounts. A woman watches from her kitchen window, giving names to the shapes she sees. &nbsp; In the morning the feral boys paint their faces [&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-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","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=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4865,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions\/4865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}