{"id":6529,"date":"2014-03-25T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T09:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2014-02-27T14:45:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T14:45:58","slug":"edwin-stockdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/edwin-stockdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Edwin Stockdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Jane Austen House<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Light cradles the water,<br \/>\nwater cradles the light.<\/p>\n<p>Cream bricks, so pure as to be disconcerting;<br \/>\na manicured house \u2013 perfect life in a mirage.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the house is the suitcase:<br \/>\nribbed, tiger-striped.<\/p>\n<p>Move your hands along its threadbare surface.<br \/>\nDust reeks.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to dishevelled silence.<br \/>\nOpen the suitcase slowly.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a gleam of knife,<br \/>\ncarnelian stains on its hilt.<\/p>\n<p>Run down the stairs<br \/>\naway from the whimsy of this house.<\/p>\n<p>The thread of my words<br \/>\nstart to slacken.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Edwin Stockdale<\/strong>&#8216;s recent magazine publications are the <em>Coffee House, Drey<\/em> (Red Squirrel Press), <em>the Interpreter\u2019s House, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis, Poetry Salzburg Review, Poetry Scotland <\/em>and<em> Snakeskin<\/em>.\u00a0 He has also been published in <em>Sculpted<\/em> (North West Poets, 2013).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; A Jane Austen House Light cradles the water, water cradles the light. Cream bricks, so pure as to be disconcerting; a manicured house \u2013 perfect life in a mirage. Inside the house is the suitcase: ribbed, tiger-striped. Move your hands along its threadbare surface. Dust reeks. Listen to dishevelled silence. Open the [&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-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","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=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}