{"id":7077,"date":"2014-07-26T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T08:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7077"},"modified":"2016-08-03T12:03:43","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T12:03:43","slug":"dot-cobley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/dot-cobley\/","title":{"rendered":"Dot Cobley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-7078\" src=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled-225x300.png\" alt=\"Untitled\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled-225x300.png 225w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled-768x1024.png 768w, https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Untitled.png 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Fernery<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scales of glass,<\/p>\n<p>a crest of frilled iron,<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">his baby<\/p>\n<p>tucked deep in shrubbery<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>could stagger up<\/p>\n<p>on stiff metal limbs<\/p>\n<p>as pier<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">crystal palace<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 60px;\">railway station,<\/p>\n<p>steam\u00a0 oil\u00a0 sweat<\/p>\n<p>on its green breath,<\/p>\n<p>mouth a cave.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pure folly,<\/p>\n<p>this sunken factory<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">of spores<\/p>\n<p>and fronds.<\/p>\n<p>She has to keep the statues<\/p>\n<p>scrubbed,<\/p>\n<p>her and her bad legs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dot Cobley<\/strong> has been published in numerous anthologies and magazines, including <em>Smiths Knoll. Rialto <\/em>and<em> The SHOp.<\/em>\u00a0 Having collaborated with artists on various projects, she has decided to try combining her own artwork and poetry&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note: The poem <em>The Fernery<\/em> was first published in <em>Seam<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Fernery &nbsp; Scales of glass, a crest of frilled iron, his baby tucked deep in shrubbery &nbsp; could stagger up on stiff metal limbs as pier crystal palace railway station, steam\u00a0 oil\u00a0 sweat on its green breath, mouth a cave. &nbsp; Pure folly, this sunken factory of spores and fronds. She has to [&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":[7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077","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=7077"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11760,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7077\/revisions\/11760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}