{"id":7250,"date":"2014-08-26T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2014-08-26T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7250"},"modified":"2014-07-31T15:29:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T15:29:53","slug":"pauline-sewards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/pauline-sewards\/","title":{"rendered":"Pauline Sewards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grand-Great<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Born old<br \/>\nas fairytale, I believed,<br \/>\nvillages lived<br \/>\nin the broken throated burr<br \/>\nof your voice<\/p>\n<p>Seamstress<br \/>\nI heard the tall tale of the needle,<br \/>\ncarelessly dropped,<br \/>\nthat made a decade long journey<br \/>\nthrough your shin<\/p>\n<p>You lived in a tin house<br \/>\nin a\u00a0 field.<br \/>\nyou fetched water each day<br \/>\nfrom the mile away<br \/>\nspring<\/p>\n<p>You lived in a thatched house<br \/>\nwith pigeons under the eaves<br \/>\na smell of paraffin<br \/>\nin the only room<br \/>\nyou could afford to heat<\/p>\n<p>You lived in grandmother\u2019s house<br \/>\nwhere sugardrunk in my under-table den<br \/>\nI watched\u00a0 your daughter lift you,<br \/>\nwith her nurse\u2019s arms<br \/>\nA kite of rags.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Pauline Sewards<\/strong> lives in Bristol and works in health care. She has been published in anthologies and magazines including <em>Loose Muse, South Bank Poetry, Domestic Cherry, Ariadne&#8217;s Thread<\/em> and online at :<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/greatbritishbardoff.blogspot.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/greatbritishbardoff.blogspot.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Grand-Great Born old as fairytale, I believed, villages lived in the broken throated burr of your voice Seamstress I heard the tall tale of the needle, carelessly dropped, that made a decade long journey through your shin You lived in a tin house in a\u00a0 field. you fetched water each day from [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250","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=7250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7253,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7250\/revisions\/7253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}