{"id":5075,"date":"2013-08-27T09:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T09:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2013-08-19T16:59:32","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T16:59:32","slug":"5075","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/5075\/","title":{"rendered":"Alasdair Paterson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swifts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You were there,<br \/>\nI was over here,<br \/>\nthe swifts were<br \/>\neverywhere between<br \/>\nbeing transcendental and<br \/>\ncomplicated and always<br \/>\ntrapped in their velocities.<\/p>\n<p>Their stitchwork fell apart<br \/>\nlike old infatuation,<br \/>\nlike the ghost of fireworks,<br \/>\nuntil dusk thickened<br \/>\nand they were only<br \/>\nshivers in it.<\/p>\n<p>I moved closer.<br \/>\nYou let me help with<br \/>\nyour imaginary shawl.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alasdair Paterson<\/strong> returned to writing in 2007 after a 20 year break, and since then has published <em>on the governing of empires<\/em> (Shearsman Books) and the pamphlets <em>Brumaire and later<\/em> (Flarestack Poets) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oystercatcherpress.com\/apaterson.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>in arcadia<\/em><\/a> (Oystercatcher Press).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Swifts You were there, I was over here, the swifts were everywhere between being transcendental and complicated and always trapped in their velocities. Their stitchwork fell apart like old infatuation, like the ghost of fireworks, until dusk thickened and they were only shivers in it. I moved closer. You let me help [&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-5075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075","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=5075"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5100,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5075\/revisions\/5100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}