{"id":5986,"date":"2013-12-18T09:00:38","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T09:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2013-11-27T16:35:24","modified_gmt":"2013-11-27T16:35:24","slug":"ian-clarke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ian-clarke\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Clarke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Murmuration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Snow rags thaw<br \/>\nto a skylark scaling octaves of air,<br \/>\nto a chill swallow christened sky<br \/>\nand in the cut balsam bee gloved and pouting,<br \/>\nseeds\u2019 hooks and burs drifting to sun cracked shadow,<br \/>\nto crocus yolk and fungus dew,<br \/>\ndaffodils\u2019 choir of smiles.<\/p>\n<p>But something at the lane\u2019s dead end<br \/>\nfreezes the heat &#8211;<br \/>\nis it rooks blackening to witch litter<br \/>\nor the pond sparkling stagnant<br \/>\nor the starlings\u2019 shifting blizzard<br \/>\nlike the dust of a shadow<br \/>\ncooling to roost.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Clarke<\/strong> was born Wisbech, Cambridgeshire 1954\u00a0 He\u00a0 started writing in his mid teens, received early encouragement from Pete Brown, British Beat poet and lyricist for rock group Cream.\u00a0 His collection <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/A-Slow-Stirring-Ian-Clarke\/dp\/1907401970 \" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Slow Stirring<\/em><\/a> is published by Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Murmuration Snow rags thaw to a skylark scaling octaves of air, to a chill swallow christened sky and in the cut balsam bee gloved and pouting, seeds\u2019 hooks and burs drifting to sun cracked shadow, to crocus yolk and fungus dew, daffodils\u2019 choir of smiles. But something at the lane\u2019s dead end [&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-5986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986","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=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5989,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions\/5989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}