{"id":5968,"date":"2013-12-14T09:00:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-14T09:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2013-11-27T15:42:44","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T15:42:44","slug":"alexandra-o%e2%80%99toole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/alexandra-o%e2%80%99toole\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandra O\u2019Toole"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Morning Glory<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I thought of you this morning,<br \/>\nas the sky turned pink<br \/>\nand the light blossomed.<br \/>\nAs the world bloomed, breathed,<br \/>\nand began again.<br \/>\nWhere is she? I wondered.<br \/>\nWhat is she doing?<br \/>\nRight now, at this moment?<br \/>\nAs I watch the blue shadows fade,<br \/>\nas a bee taps at my window.<\/p>\n<p>I remembered you as you were last night,<br \/>\nwhen the clouds parted<br \/>\nand the moon shimmered.<br \/>\nThe way your pale hips shook and fell,<br \/>\nand how you bit your lip.<br \/>\nAnd your hair,<br \/>\nspread like honey on the ground<br \/>\nwas soft and all aglow.<br \/>\nThe way a blush seeped through your milky skin,<br \/>\nsetting you alight beside the blackened river.<\/p>\n<p>I looked at you as I rose,<br \/>\nfrom the rough weeds of my bed<br \/>\nand brushed down my clothes.<br \/>\nThe half smile on your lips, afterwards:<br \/>\nbefore the glory of the morning.<br \/>\nWhat were you thinking? I wondered.<br \/>\nWhat were you thinking?<br \/>\nJust then, at that moment,<br \/>\nas I caught my breath and felt my heart slow,<br \/>\nas the nightingale began to sing our song<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Alexandra O\u2019Toole<\/strong> is currently editing her first novel. She has an MA\u00a0in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. When she\u2019s not writing,\u00a0or blogging about writing at <a href=\"http:\/\/alexandraotoole.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">alexandraotoole.wordpress.com <\/a>she\u00a0works with businesses to help them connect with their audiences\u00a0through stories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Morning Glory I thought of you this morning, as the sky turned pink and the light blossomed. As the world bloomed, breathed, and began again. Where is she? I wondered. What is she doing? Right now, at this moment? As I watch the blue shadows fade, as a bee taps at my [&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-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5971,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions\/5971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}