{"id":7997,"date":"2015-01-12T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2015-01-12T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=7997"},"modified":"2015-01-01T16:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:56:11","slug":"joan-mcnerney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/joan-mcnerney\/","title":{"rendered":"Joan McNerney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>*<br \/>\nMy shelf has room for<br \/>\ntwo serving plates, five bowls<br \/>\nand one slice of moon glow.<\/p>\n<p>Hallow mouth of the moon.<br \/>\nClouds cross forming<br \/>\nan airy handkerchief.<\/p>\n<p>Summer evening.<br \/>\nSun and moon share the sky in<br \/>\nperfect symmetry.<\/p>\n<p>Who threw a ladle full<br \/>\nof moonbeams on my<br \/>\ncelery green grass?<\/p>\n<p>Shy autumnal bird<br \/>\ndid you brush against the moon<br \/>\nto get that pale down?<\/p>\n<p>What discus player<br \/>\nthrew a tangerine moon on<br \/>\ntop of Main Street?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Joan McNerney<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has been included in numerous literary magazines such as Camel Saloon, Seven Circle Press, Dinner with the Muse, Blueline, Spectrum, and included in Bright Hills Press, Kind of A Hurricane and Poppy Road Anthologies. She has been nominated three times for Best of the Net.\u00a0 Poet and Geek recognized her work as their best poem of 2013.\u00a0 Four of her books have been published by fine small literary presses and she has three e-book titles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; * My shelf has room for two serving plates, five bowls and one slice of moon glow. Hallow mouth of the moon. Clouds cross forming an airy handkerchief. Summer evening. Sun and moon share the sky in perfect symmetry. Who threw a ladle full of moonbeams on my celery green grass? Shy autumnal [&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-7997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997","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=7997"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7999,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7997\/revisions\/7999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}