{"id":674,"date":"2010-05-14T09:26:27","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T09:26:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=674"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:26:27","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T09:26:27","slug":"harry-owen-considers-the-moments-of-our-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/harry-owen-considers-the-moments-of-our-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Owen considers the moments of our living"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Tending<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mess of thin cobwebs in the top corner <br \/>of the bathroom window, one yellow <br \/>spider a long-legged sac patrolling the bounds;<\/p>\n<p>rain that tends down with this soft hiss, a veil,<br \/>its silken signature of earth-parchment<br \/>a blessing, temptation, wilderness;<\/p>\n<p>or snores that broach sleep, dream, shared breath <br \/>of dog and man. Alive. All so present, <br \/>so rich. And when it fades at last, so ended, <\/p>\n<p>the gentle shared movements of our living,<br \/>constrained, ferocious, here. Everything<br \/>so long continuing and yet, quite soon, so gone.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Harry Owen<\/span> was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate for Cheshire in 2003. He now lives in Grahamstown, South Africa. His fourth collection, Non-Dog, has just been published by The Poets Printery.<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tending Mess of thin cobwebs in the top corner of the bathroom window, one yellow spider a long-legged sac patrolling the bounds; rain that tends down with this soft hiss, a veil,its silken signature of earth-parchmenta blessing, temptation, wilderness; or snores that broach sleep, dream, shared breath of dog and man. Alive. All so present, [&hellip;]<\/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-674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}