{"id":5659,"date":"2013-11-21T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5659"},"modified":"2013-10-28T16:57:52","modified_gmt":"2013-10-28T16:57:52","slug":"noel-williams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/noel-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"Noel Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Breather<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On the church steps, pink horseshoes hook silver hearts, lift in the wind, petalling grass and graves.<br \/>\nIn suits and awkward hats, round the lich-gate strangers whisper. I\u2019ll rest on this uncertain wall, wait for the chain of black cars.<br \/>\nLichen rubs from the stone to my hand.<br \/>\nA girl who is nothing to do with any of this trundles her pushchair through the wreath of cars.<br \/>\nThe edge of the wall shakes under me. I think about shifting. I don\u2019t move.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Noel Williams<\/strong> has published widely in magazines and anthologies in the UK. He is editor of <a href=\"http:\/\/antiphon.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Antiphon<\/em> <\/a>and Associate Editor of\u00a0<em>Orbis<\/em>. His first collection, <em>Out of Breath<\/em>, will be published by Cinnamon in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; \u00a0Breather On the church steps, pink horseshoes hook silver hearts, lift in the wind, petalling grass and graves. In suits and awkward hats, round the lich-gate strangers whisper. I\u2019ll rest on this uncertain wall, wait for the chain of black cars. Lichen rubs from the stone to my hand. A girl who [&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-5659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659","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=5659"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5662,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5659\/revisions\/5662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}