{"id":7491,"date":"2014-10-15T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T08:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7491"},"modified":"2014-10-04T10:55:38","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T10:55:38","slug":"megan-pattie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/megan-pattie\/","title":{"rendered":"Megan Pattie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Marginalia 20\/02\/2014<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I have started<br \/>\ndrawing birds<br \/>\nin the margins.<\/p>\n<p>The space is birds,<br \/>\nall the white is birds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOpen your eyes.<br \/>\nThe light is birds.\u201d<br \/>\nAnd words are birds<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs gay as words<br \/>\nthey fly\u201d the birds<\/p>\n<p>are in my brain<br \/>\nnow nesting<br \/>\nflying singing<\/p>\n<p>doing what birds<br \/>\ndo in fact in poems<\/p>\n<p>and in poets<br \/>\nwho are like birds<br \/>\nor would like to be<\/p>\n<p>or are birds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Megan Pattie<\/strong> is a poet living in Whitley Bay on the North East Coast. She has just completed a BA in English Literature at UEA and is soon to begin a Masters at Durham University. More about her poetry can be found at<a href=\" http:\/\/pattiepoetry.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> pattiepoetry.wordpress.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Marginalia 20\/02\/2014 I have started drawing birds in the margins. The space is birds, all the white is birds. \u201cOpen your eyes. The light is birds.\u201d And words are birds \u201cAs gay as words they fly\u201d the birds are in my brain now nesting flying singing doing what birds do in fact [&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-7491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491","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=7491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7494,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7491\/revisions\/7494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}