{"id":5955,"date":"2013-12-11T09:00:40","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T09:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5955"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:39:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:39:04","slug":"john-irvine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/john-irvine\/","title":{"rendered":"John Irvine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Epiphany<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>What with tenement living<br \/>\nand one thing having lead to another<br \/>\nI began to wonder<\/p>\n<p>What kind of noise<br \/>\nwould a shopping trolley make<br \/>\npushed down our stairwell?<\/p>\n<p>Kwik Save produced a peach.<\/p>\n<p>I wheel it round<br \/>\npast the offy<br \/>\npast La Cala<br \/>\nand quietly up the stair<br \/>\nto my landing at 2\/R<br \/>\nwhere I<br \/>\npause<br \/>\nas a kind cloud moves<br \/>\nsomewhere behind stained glass<br \/>\nand lets in the lonely Western light<br \/>\nthat only Glasgow has<br \/>\nthat painters long for<br \/>\nthat quenches the eye<br \/>\nlike a handful of hill water<br \/>\nquenches a thirst<br \/>\nand<\/p>\n<p>let go<\/p>\n<p>as the sound of a single silver bullet<br \/>\nroars through my skull.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Irvine<\/strong> studied things at Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, the RSAMD, Glasgow and The University of Edinburgh. His poems and short stories have been published, or are forthcoming in: <em>Blinking Cursor, Essence, Open Mouse, Poetry Scotland, South<\/em> and <em>Streetcake Magazine<\/em>, amongst others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Epiphany What with tenement living and one thing having lead to another I began to wonder What kind of noise would a shopping trolley make pushed down our stairwell? Kwik Save produced a peach. I wheel it round past the offy past La Cala and quietly up the stair to my landing at [&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-5955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955","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=5955"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22137,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5955\/revisions\/22137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}