{"id":8136,"date":"2015-02-09T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8136"},"modified":"2015-01-26T16:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T16:15:26","slug":"elisabeth-sennitt-clough-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/elisabeth-sennitt-clough-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Sennitt Clough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Cowry Shell<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>How many palms have clasped<br \/>\nthe measled back, thumbed their way<br \/>\nalong the blue-grey watermark<br \/>\nto negotiate three sacks of corn<br \/>\nor a new bride?<\/p>\n<p>Little womb of the sea,<br \/>\nit births an osseous mouth<br \/>\nall tucked and crimped in<br \/>\nwith hints of baby teeth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elisabeth Sennitt Clough<\/strong> lives in Norfolk with her husband and three children. She won her first poetry prize last year in the PENfro Competition. Her poems have appeared in various UK poetry magazines and anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; The Cowry Shell How many palms have clasped the measled back, thumbed their way along the blue-grey watermark to negotiate three sacks of corn or a new bride? Little womb of the sea, it births an osseous mouth all tucked and crimped in with hints of baby teeth. &nbsp; &nbsp; Elisabeth Sennitt Clough [&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-8136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136","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=8136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8139,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8136\/revisions\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}