{"id":7986,"date":"2015-01-09T09:00:36","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T09:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:36:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:36:43","slug":"sergio-a-ortiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sergio-a-ortiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Sergio A. Ortiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Color of Death<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>her skin chips off<br \/>\naround the arms like seashells<br \/>\nthen darkens<br \/>\njust above the ankles\u2026<br \/>\na hundred years on the stretcher<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nI visit after the stroke<br \/>\nand hear a knelling\u2014<br \/>\nhalf of her body<br \/>\nsilent gold dust,<br \/>\nthe other half a silky sorrow<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sergio A. Ortiz<\/strong> is the founding editor of <em>Undertow Tanka Review.<\/em> He lives in San Juan Puerto Rico.\u00a0 He is a four-time nominee for the 2010-2011 Sundress Best of the Web Anthology, and a two-time 2010 Pushcart nominee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The Color of Death her skin chips off around the arms like seashells then darkens just above the ankles\u2026 a hundred years on the stretcher * I visit after the stroke and hear a knelling\u2014 half of her body silent gold dust, the other half a silky sorrow &nbsp; &nbsp; Sergio A. [&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-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986","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=7986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7988,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7986\/revisions\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}