{"id":509,"date":"2010-01-09T17:34:51","date_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=509"},"modified":"2010-01-09T17:34:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-09T17:34:51","slug":"fiona-donaghey-is-wondering-about-the-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/fiona-donaghey-is-wondering-about-the-painter\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Donaghey is wondering about the painter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The Painter<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">She sits in the hairdressers<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">shrouded in products and bleach,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">her inners pulsing; fear protruding,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">the tick tocks spacing her rhythms<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">trying to reassure her heart.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The hairdresser paints her hair with colours and tin foil.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">She wonders if this painter can see through her \u2013<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">inside her head,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">the head that is rehearsing the geography of her home,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">counting numbers and ticks to keep safe.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">* Fiona Donaghey<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> says &#8220;I&#39;m a student at City College Norwich and belong to a great poetry group hosted by the poet Helen Ivory&#8221;.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Painter&nbsp;She sits in the hairdressersshrouded in products and bleach,&nbsp;her inners pulsing; fear protruding,the tick tocks spacing her rhythmstrying to reassure her heart.&nbsp;The hairdresser paints her hair with colours and tin foil.&nbsp;She wonders if this painter can see through her \u2013inside her head,the head that is rehearsing the geography of her home,counting numbers and ticks [&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-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","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=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}