{"id":7970,"date":"2015-01-05T09:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7970"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:01:02","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:01:02","slug":"jane-lovell-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jane-lovell-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Lovell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Salt worker, <\/strong><strong>Se\u010dovlje\u00a0 <\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There is a point at which he leans<\/p>\n<p>and pauses, and the sun bleaches<\/p>\n<p>the edges from the salt pile,<\/p>\n<p>the wooden rake, the tracks and carts<\/p>\n<p>with their drapery of halite.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>His face gleams like flowstone,<\/p>\n<p>eyes fix upon a line<\/p>\n<p>pinning tool huts all the way<\/p>\n<p>to the horizon,<\/p>\n<p>a land<\/p>\n<p>brimming sea and salt-blooms<\/p>\n<p>above carpets of petola,<\/p>\n<p>quiet pans of algae, gypsum, clay<\/p>\n<p>where egrets pick their way<\/p>\n<p>through cubes of sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He is listening to the voice<\/p>\n<p>of the salt, the tinkering of the sea<\/p>\n<p>as it abandons its minerals<\/p>\n<p>at his feet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Terns blow in from the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Swallows sweep the Giassi channel<\/p>\n<p>past the new museum.<\/p>\n<p>The sea drifts out to join the sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He does not move.<\/p>\n<p>A rime of salt blisters his lips,<\/p>\n<p>gathers in his desiccated bones.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Eight centuries of shift and hiss;<\/p>\n<p>he closes his eyes,<\/p>\n<p>balances against the light.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Lovell<\/strong> lives in Rugby, Warwickshire. Her poems, which have been published in a range of journals including <em>Agenda, Poetry Wales<\/em> and <em>Myslexia<\/em>, focus on our relationship with nature, from a flea wearing tiny jewelled boots created by a Russian miniaturist to a circus elephant butchered during food shortages in post-war Vienna. Threads of folklore and science run through her work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salt worker, Se\u010dovlje\u00a0 &nbsp; There is a point at which he leans and pauses, and the sun bleaches the edges from the salt pile, the wooden rake, the tracks and carts with their drapery of halite. &nbsp; His face gleams like flowstone, eyes fix upon a line pinning tool huts all the way to the [&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-7970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970","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=7970"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7972,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7970\/revisions\/7972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}