{"id":610,"date":"2010-03-31T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=610"},"modified":"2010-03-31T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T08:06:15","slug":"frank-dullaghan-is-telling-old-tales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/frank-dullaghan-is-telling-old-tales\/","title":{"rendered":"Frank Dullaghan is telling old tales"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fairy Tales<\/span>
  <\/span>
In your telling of it, that farm cottage<\/span>
held all the detailed charm<\/span>
of a painting – the sun purring<\/span>
against its white walls, its half-door<\/span>
opening onto a yard of hens, and<\/span>
a tractor standing noble in its red coat.<\/span>
 <\/span>
But touch the paint and it will flake<\/span>
to half-truths and closed spaces,<\/span>
to bog-dark silences and pain<\/span>
tight as a body bag. It has more to do<\/span>
with rough hands and a young girl's<\/span>
sudden knowing than playful lambs.<\/span>
 <\/span>
This is the dark within the fairy tale,<\/span>
the old story dressed up for the neighbors.<\/span>



* Frank Dullaghan<\/span> is an Irish poet who has been living in Dubai since Sept 2006. His first collection On the Back of the Wind<\/span><\/a> is published by Cinnamon Press in the UK. Whilst living in the UK, he edited the poetry magazine<\/span> Seam<\/a>.   <\/span>
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Fairy Tales  In your telling of it, that farm cottageheld all the detailed charmof a painting – the sun purringagainst its white walls, its half-dooropening onto a yard of hens, anda tractor standing noble in its red coat. But touch the paint and it will flaketo half-truths and closed spaces,to bog-dark silences and paintight as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}