{"id":763,"date":"2010-08-02T09:35:51","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T09:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=763"},"modified":"2010-08-02T09:35:51","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T09:35:51","slug":"ben-wilkinson-is-on-montales-balcony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ben-wilkinson-is-on-montales-balcony\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Wilkinson is on Montale&#39;s Balcony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">The Balcony<\/span><br \/><font size=\"1\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"><br \/>after Eugenio Montale<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p>Remember those nights I\u2019d linger below<br \/>as you stood in the stars and we\u2019d talk<br \/>of leaving, as if auditioning for the part<br \/>of Romeo and fluffing my lines as usual?<\/p>\n<p>Now on the opposite side I lean smoking<br \/>and think on that handful of chances.<br \/>The latticework of some distant tower block <br \/>a chessboard that\u2019s cleared after stalemate.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhere beyond a long flight\u2019s expanses<br \/>you spark a Zippo and light one up. Here <br \/>it starts raining as I hang in the moment, <br \/>turn towards this window\u2019s squaring of dark. <br \/>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">*Ben Wilkinson<\/span> is an editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poetryarchive.org\/poetryarchive\/home.do\">The Poetry Archive<\/a>.&nbsp; His poems have appeared in publications including Poetry Review, Poetry London, The Manhattan Review (USA), The Spectator, and the TLS. His first pamphlet of poems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tall-lighthouse.co.uk\/p_benwilkinson.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Sparks<\/span><\/a> (tall-lighthouse, 2008) and he was shortlisted for the 2009 Eric Gregory Award.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Balconyafter Eugenio Montale Remember those nights I\u2019d linger belowas you stood in the stars and we\u2019d talkof leaving, as if auditioning for the partof Romeo and fluffing my lines as usual? Now on the opposite side I lean smokingand think on that handful of chances.The latticework of some distant tower block a chessboard that\u2019s [&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-763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763","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=763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}