{"id":7655,"date":"2014-11-26T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-26T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7655"},"modified":"2014-11-02T14:59:36","modified_gmt":"2014-11-02T14:59:36","slug":"matthew-friday-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/matthew-friday-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Matthew Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Butterfly Landing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twitch<br \/>\nand she panics away.<br \/>\nSit still. So.<br \/>\nBe a karst hill,<br \/>\nunmoving time<br \/>\nand wait<br \/>\nfor her panting wings<br \/>\nto slow, slow.<br \/>\nThis is a special trust<br \/>\nor she mistakes your<br \/>\nleg for a flower.<br \/>\nEither way,<br \/>\nyou are blessed<br \/>\nby this silken<br \/>\ngift. Her probing<br \/>\nmouth-<br \/>\npiece kisses<br \/>\nyou a thousand<br \/>\nthanks. She is so<br \/>\ndelicate, a single<br \/>\nword could snap<br \/>\nup the orange bands<br \/>\non her velvet brown<br \/>\nwings and<br \/>\nsend<br \/>\nher flying back<br \/>\ninto the breath<br \/>\nof the wind.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Matthew Friday<\/strong> is a writer, professional storyteller and primary school teacher. By all means check out the results at:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewfriday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.matthewfriday.com<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Butterfly Landing Twitch and she panics away. Sit still. So. Be a karst hill, unmoving time and wait for her panting wings to slow, slow. This is a special trust or she mistakes your leg for a flower. Either way, you are blessed by this silken gift. Her probing mouth- piece kisses [&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-7655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655","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=7655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7658,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7655\/revisions\/7658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}