{"id":8179,"date":"2015-02-22T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T09:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8179"},"modified":"2020-05-29T09:37:41","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T09:37:41","slug":"annie-brechin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/annie-brechin\/","title":{"rendered":"Annie Brechin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Ghost Hotel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I walk with my skin open in the hotel for ghosts.<br \/>\nThey are here because they had secrets.\u00a0 I will have none.<br \/>\nThey are always opening and closing the doors,<br \/>\na constant latching behind my back.\u00a0 If I laugh<br \/>\nit\u2019s because I thought the word \u2018liminal\u2019.<br \/>\nI think cruelly. To admit otherwise would risk a lie.<\/p>\n<p>The body can be a bed, or a blank canvas,<br \/>\nor a back bared for whipping.<br \/>\nIt is important to describe accurately the colour<br \/>\nand viscosity of blood.\u00a0 In the ghost hotel<br \/>\nthese transactions are no longer complex.<br \/>\nThey take place simultaneously in every room.<br \/>\nOnce I had the surgery to remove my eyelids<br \/>\nI felt a lot more comfortable.<\/p>\n<p>At the entrance I have planted the dark tree, the dam kor.<br \/>\nIf you ask me I will speak.\u00a0 But if you don\u2019t I won\u2019t.<br \/>\nI work in the ghost hotel because they don\u2019t bother me,<br \/>\nthe living or the dead.\u00a0 Their snickering of lace curtains.<br \/>\nI have come to accept I will never see them.<br \/>\nI hold out my hand.\u00a0 I give them the keys.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Annie Brechin<\/strong> has been published in\u00a0<em>The Wolf, Stand, Magma, Rising, B O D Y, Paris Lit Up<\/em>\u00a0and others. In 2003 she was awarded a Jerwood\/Arvon Young Poets Apprenticeship. Former Poetry Editor for\u00a0<em>The Prague Revu<\/em>e, she moved from Paris to Dubai this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghost Hotel I walk with my skin open in the hotel for ghosts. They are here because they had secrets.\u00a0 I will have none. They are always opening and closing the doors, a constant latching behind my back.\u00a0 If I laugh it\u2019s because I thought the word \u2018liminal\u2019. I think cruelly. To admit otherwise [&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-8179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179","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=8179"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22135,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8179\/revisions\/22135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}