{"id":8039,"date":"2015-01-22T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8039"},"modified":"2015-01-01T18:16:50","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:16:50","slug":"colin-will-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/colin-will-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Colin Will"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The pencil tree<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I want a pencil tree,<br \/>\nits black heart<br \/>\nwriting words<br \/>\nof wind and rain,<br \/>\nwinter stillness<br \/>\nand summer flourish.<\/p>\n<p>I want a pencil tree,<br \/>\nbut not that one.<br \/>\nThat one has<br \/>\nthe pimples<br \/>\nof illness<br \/>\nall over<br \/>\nits grey hide,<br \/>\nready to burst<br \/>\nand spread death<br \/>\nto all<br \/>\nthe other trees<br \/>\nin the grove.<br \/>\nCut it down.<br \/>\nDig it up.<br \/>\nBurn it.<br \/>\nStart again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Colin Will<\/strong> (@colindwill) is a poet and publisher living in Dunbar. His new collection of haibun, <em>The Book of Ways<\/em>, has just been published by Red Squirrel Press. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colinwill.co.uk\/http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.colinwill.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The pencil tree I want a pencil tree, its black heart writing words of wind and rain, winter stillness and summer flourish. I want a pencil tree, but not that one. That one has the pimples of illness all over its grey hide, ready to burst and spread death to all 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-8039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039","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=8039"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8042,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8039\/revisions\/8042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}