{"id":71,"date":"2012-02-06T10:11:40","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=71"},"modified":"2012-02-06T10:11:40","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T10:11:40","slug":"daniel-adeys-the-auspices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/daniel-adeys-the-auspices\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Adey&#39;s &#39;The Auspices&#39;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal { margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; }div.Section1 { page: Section1; }<\/style>\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">The Auspices<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp; <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">You underestimate yourself <br \/>\nwhen you open your mouth I listen <br \/>\nthese offerings, your <i style=\"\">mere crumbs<\/i><br \/>\nif I told you how they fill me up <\/p>\n<p>It&#39;s spring and the geese are coming in to land <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nI love the clumsy way they hit the water<br \/>\njust how do they get here <br \/>\nso hungry and astonished? <br \/>\nImagine it, three thousand miles or more travelled <\/p>\n<p>And I swore I\u2019d never write <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nanother out-fishing poem <br \/>\nbut this is what I&#39;m doing\u2026 <br \/>\nup to my waist in water and <br \/>\nwishing I had the skill to let you see it <\/p>\n<p>Open your mouth <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nif you say the word <i>bruised<\/i><br \/>\nthen that&#39;s how gudgeon might taste <br \/>\nif they were big enough to eat <\/p>\n<p>I see you picking bones from your teeth <\/font><br \/>\n<font size=\"2\"><br \/>\nor grabbing a handsome book from your shelf <br \/>\neverything is moving <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">in its intended direction <br \/>\nand yes &#8211; you underestimate yourself<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" class=\"MsoNormal\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<\/font><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;<br \/><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">*Daniel Adey<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> lives in Birmingham, England. When he is not busy tending to robots he is out amongst trees, with his family.&nbsp; Occasionally he might write a poem or two.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Auspices &nbsp; You underestimate yourself when you open your mouth I listen these offerings, your mere crumbs if I told you how they fill me up It&#39;s spring and the geese are coming in to land I love the clumsy way they hit the water just how do they get here so hungry and [&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-71","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71","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=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}