{"id":7894,"date":"2014-12-23T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7894"},"modified":"2014-12-10T14:07:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T14:07:54","slug":"josh-ekroy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/josh-ekroy\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Ekroy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>I, Calluna<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>am bog vegetation born from acid<br \/>\nlike to be grazed, invite burning.<br \/>\nKallunein I\u2019m called, to sweep up,<br \/>\nI have been a thousand besoms in my time.<br \/>\nEach one of me\u00a0 &#8211; Beoley Crimson,<br \/>\nBoskoop, Firefly, Long White<\/p>\n<p>display florets that peep through the snow<br \/>\nto famished deer and sheep.<br \/>\nWillow Grouse and Red Grouse peck<br \/>\non me.\u00a0 Lochmaea suturalis<br \/>\ncan kill me, and I become all beetle.<\/p>\n<p>I dyed wool yellow and tanned leather.<br \/>\nI was gruit, brewed heather-beer,<br \/>\nmy fungus is hallucinogenic.<br \/>\nI am a jelly until stirred, and<br \/>\nif you leave me alone, I will set again<br \/>\nto become honey.<br \/>\nLeave me in my comb.<\/p>\n<p>Remember me as you receive<br \/>\nthe thrusting gypsy hand:<br \/>\nHamlet Green, Saint Nick,<br \/>\nPearl Drop, Elkstone White,<br \/>\nDainty Bess, Pennymore Gold,<br \/>\nBlazeaway, Darkness, Horsefeather&#8230;<br \/>\nThe luck I bring you<br \/>\nwill last for no more than a minute.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Josh Ekroy<\/strong>&#8216;s debut collection <a href=\"http:\/\/ninearchespress.com\/shop.html#!\/Ways-to-Build-a-Roadblock-Josh-Ekroy\/p\/35669842\/category=8486213\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Ways to Build a Roadblock<\/em> <\/a>was published in May 2014 by Nine Arches Press. He lives in the City of London.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; I, Calluna am bog vegetation born from acid like to be grazed, invite burning. Kallunein I\u2019m called, to sweep up, I have been a thousand besoms in my time. Each one of me\u00a0 &#8211; Beoley Crimson, Boskoop, Firefly, Long White display florets that peep through the snow to famished deer and sheep. [&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-7894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894","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=7894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7896,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7894\/revisions\/7896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}