{"id":5038,"date":"2013-08-17T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T09:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5038"},"modified":"2013-08-04T15:50:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T15:50:08","slug":"sally-long","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sally-long\/","title":{"rendered":"Sally Long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Anger<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Something unpardonable<\/p>\n<p>brightens my veins,<\/p>\n<p>filters into my arteries<\/p>\n<p>like a small burrowing creature,<\/p>\n<p>a splattery anger,<\/p>\n<p>murderously hot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I scream, curse the world,<\/p>\n<p>blunder about in the garden,<\/p>\n<p>trample on all her favourite flowers;<\/p>\n<p>delphiniums, sweet william, bachelor buttons,<\/p>\n<p>irises, oriental poppies,<\/p>\n<p>scatter petals on the asphalt path.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sally Long<\/strong> writes a range of poetry including found poetry, metrical forms and free verse with subjects ranging from childhood memories to Celtic mythology. She is currently a student at the University of East London on the MA Writing: Imaginative Practice. When not writing poetry she works as a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: This poem has previously appeared here<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulitzerremix.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> http:\/\/www.pulitzerremix.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Anger &nbsp; Something unpardonable brightens my veins, filters into my arteries like a small burrowing creature, a splattery anger, murderously hot. &nbsp; I scream, curse the world, blunder about in the garden, trample on all her favourite flowers; delphiniums, sweet william, bachelor buttons, irises, oriental poppies, scatter petals on the asphalt path. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-5038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038","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=5038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5040,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5038\/revisions\/5040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}