{"id":7287,"date":"2014-09-05T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7287"},"modified":"2014-09-05T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T08:15:39","slug":"katie-simpson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/katie-simpson\/","title":{"rendered":"Katie Simpson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Closure<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>there are<br \/>\na dozen doors<br \/>\ni never closed.<\/p>\n<p>instead, i walked<br \/>\naway<br \/>\nletting the<br \/>\ncool air<br \/>\ndrift out<br \/>\nonce solid doors.<\/p>\n<p>but with open<br \/>\ndoors, ghosts<br \/>\nfollow<br \/>\nand at certain angles<br \/>\nyour shadows<br \/>\nfill my days.<\/p>\n<p>i wish you<br \/>\nwouldn&#8217;t<br \/>\nbut<br \/>\nso far from<br \/>\nthen<br \/>\ni cannot find<br \/>\nmy way back<br \/>\nto our house<br \/>\nand lock you<br \/>\ninside.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Katie Simpson<\/strong> is a poet and short story writer. She\u2019s been published in both the\u00a0<em>Wilderness House Literary Review\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>Furious Gazelle.<\/em> When not writing, you can find her wandering through cities or cuddling with her cat, Cleo. Find her online at<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ksimp522\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0http:\/\/twitter.com\/ksimp522<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closure there are a dozen doors i never closed. instead, i walked away letting the cool air drift out once solid doors. but with open doors, ghosts follow and at certain angles your shadows fill my days. i wish you wouldn&#8217;t but so far from then i cannot find my way back to our house [&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-7287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287","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=7287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7290,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7287\/revisions\/7290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}