{"id":719,"date":"2010-06-22T14:03:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=719"},"modified":"2010-06-22T14:03:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-22T14:03:24","slug":"joanna-boulter-is-also-dreaming-of-invisible-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joanna-boulter-is-also-dreaming-of-invisible-stars\/","title":{"rendered":"Joanna Boulter is also dreaming of invisible stars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Le Cheval Bleu<\/span><\/p>\n<p>whose sky was once the colour of walls, of iron bars,<br \/>leapt up over the high gate<\/p>\n<p>to explore the air<br \/>the amaze of up there&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>so far \u2014<\/p>\n<p>blueskying&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; grazing <br \/>on what he guessed <br \/>glimpsed through the gates.<\/p>\n<p>And having once set foot above cloudgrey<br \/>he is back to earth again and earth<br \/>is ordinary.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; But he<br \/>has taken on skycolour for ever<\/p>\n<p>and stands<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; dreaming&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;<br \/>of invisible stars.<\/p>\n<p>Having soared he is lame to earth,<br \/>favours a cracked fetlock, the cost of his courage.<\/p>\n<p>I want to go with him. I would pay that price<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Joanna Boulter<\/span>&#39;s <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Twenty Four Preludes &amp;&nbsp;Fugues on Dmitri Shostakovich<\/span>, 2006, Arc Publications was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 2007.&nbsp; She runs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arrowheadpress.co.uk\/\">Arrowhead Press<\/a> with Roger Collett.<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Cheval Bleu whose sky was once the colour of walls, of iron bars,leapt up over the high gate to explore the airthe amaze of up there&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; so far \u2014 blueskying&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; grazing on what he guessed glimpsed through the gates. And having once set foot above cloudgreyhe is back to earth [&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-719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719","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=719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}