{"id":5657,"date":"2013-11-20T09:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T09:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5657"},"modified":"2020-12-14T13:43:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T13:43:34","slug":"roger-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/roger-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Roger Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Photo from the Fifties<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>snow globe<br \/>\nshaking up a new maelstrom<br \/>\nwatching it settle<\/p>\n<p>Overnight, a snowstorm has claimed our town. The neighbor\u2019s houses and yards are coated.\u00a0 Snow swallows the old DeSoto.\u00a0 No one\u2019s outside except my father, sister, and two cousins, all of whom run across the empty lot next door. They\u2019ve taken sides for a snowball fight.\u00a0 My cousin, father, lean to wad up new snowballs. My sister, dodging a cousin\u2019s throw, is laughing.\u00a0 In the foreground, aged five or so, I\u2019m just off the porch in my furry ear-muffs. Mouth open, I\u2019m shouting at whoever is taking the picture.<\/p>\n<p>her sudden laughter &#8212;<br \/>\na sheet of ice comes sliding<br \/>\noff the church roof<\/p>\n<p>winter boots by the door<br \/>\na round puddle<br \/>\ngrowing on the newspaper<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Roger Jones<\/strong> has published haiku, haibun and tanka in various journals over the past few years.\u00a0 His haibun collection <em>Goodbye<\/em>, selected as the Snapshot Press e-chapbook award winner for 2012-13, will be published soon.\u00a0 He teaches writing in Texas, and has published three other collections of poetry.\u00a0 Twitter: @haibunator<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; A Photo from the Fifties snow globe shaking up a new maelstrom watching it settle Overnight, a snowstorm has claimed our town. The neighbor\u2019s houses and yards are coated.\u00a0 Snow swallows the old DeSoto.\u00a0 No one\u2019s outside except my father, sister, and two cousins, all of whom run across the empty lot next [&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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","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=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24027,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions\/24027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}