{"id":70,"date":"2012-02-04T18:45:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=70"},"modified":"2012-02-04T18:45:24","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T18:45:24","slug":"francesca-pridhams-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/francesca-pridhams-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Francesca Pridham&#39;s &#39;Grace&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Grace<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">You have taken every bone,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">white cupped in your hand.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">As simple as breath eased in <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">and out you carried each piece <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">in turn and laid me down.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The night opens time; <\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">tiny bubbles explode to<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">flow a soft body into my skin;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">sure hands reconstruct my face.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">&nbsp;<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I ache and boneless<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">keep still in case I break.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Francesca Pridham<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> has written poetry for many years exploding into fame with her pamphlet&nbsp; <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Red Jam<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> (Crocus) 2000.&nbsp; She is also the author of <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">The Language of Conversation <\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">(Routledge)<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace&nbsp;You have taken every bone,white cupped in your hand.As simple as breath eased in and out you carried each piece in turn and laid me down.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;The night opens time; tiny bubbles explode toflow a soft body into my skin;sure hands reconstruct my face.&nbsp;I ache and bonelesskeep still in case I break.*Francesca Pridham has written [&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-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","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=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}