{"id":822,"date":"2010-09-21T11:15:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:15:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:15:56","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T11:15:56","slug":"sonia-hendy-isaac-is-incanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/sonia-hendy-isaac-is-incanting\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonia Hendy-Isaac is incanting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Incantation <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Breathing his name beneath the frost;<br \/>the vowels hum on her tongue like a charm. &nbsp;<br \/>She buries the trowel into the concrete <br \/>earth &amp; places the mass of plug-hole hair <br \/>into the gap, alongside ribbon-bound hazel <br \/>twigs.&nbsp; Her hands force the brittle dirt <br \/>back to its origin; she scrapes a razor blade <br \/>across her sinisterly third finger &amp; beds <br \/>the incantation home.&nbsp; She continues to <br \/>rotate the hex in her throat; only the fear <br \/>that the knotted locks might not be his, <br \/>force the sound to prickle her skin.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">* Sonia Hendy-Isaac<\/span> has an MA in Creative &amp; Critical Writing; she is now completing her PhD.&nbsp; Her poetry has been widely published in journals; her most recent work can be found in <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Snakeskin, The Shit Creek Review, Qarrtsiluni, Equinox &amp; Neon<\/span>.&nbsp; She is also an&nbsp; editor for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iotamagazine.co.uk\/\">Iota<\/a>. <br \/><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incantation Breathing his name beneath the frost;the vowels hum on her tongue like a charm. &nbsp;She buries the trowel into the concrete earth &amp; places the mass of plug-hole hair into the gap, alongside ribbon-bound hazel twigs.&nbsp; Her hands force the brittle dirt back to its origin; she scrapes a razor blade across her sinisterly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}