{"id":756,"date":"2010-07-27T09:53:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T09:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=756"},"modified":"2010-07-27T09:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T09:53:00","slug":"melissa-lee-houghton-says-shes-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/melissa-lee-houghton-says-shes-yours\/","title":{"rendered":"Melissa Lee-Houghton says she's yours"},"content":{"rendered":"

She\u2019s Yours<\/span>


One version is that you went to prison, and <\/span>
nobody knowing why only makes it all the more glamorous<\/span>
to a seven year old with a giddy imagination.<\/span>
Out picking daisies and dandelion clocks,<\/span>
scabs all over her knees, the girl imagines you<\/span>
rattling your tin cup along the prison gates,<\/span>
take out a photograph all crumpled and greasy<\/span>
of her, and cry all day. She is only waiting for you<\/span>
to be good again. If you can master that she\u2019s yours.<\/span>



* Melissa Lee-Houghton<\/span> says “I write reviews for the <\/span>Short Review<\/span>, fiction most recently published in<\/span> Succour<\/span> and poetry most recently published in <\/span>Tears in the Fence<\/span>. A full collection of poems is due out 2011.”<\/span>

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She\u2019s YoursOne version is that you went to prison, and nobody knowing why only makes it all the more glamorousto a seven year old with a giddy imagination.Out picking daisies and dandelion clocks,scabs all over her knees, the girl imagines yourattling your tin cup along the prison gates,take out a photograph all crumpled and greasyof […]<\/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-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}