{"id":8491,"date":"2015-05-06T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-06T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8491"},"modified":"2015-04-28T12:21:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-28T12:21:54","slug":"jessamine-o-connor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/jessamine-o-connor\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessamine O Connor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Hellsteeth<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His house is sinking<br \/>\nThe tin roof crumbling<br \/>\nHe was springtime<br \/>\nUp on rotten ladders<br \/>\nPainting it red<br \/>\nA balancing act<br \/>\nJuggling brush, can, and glass<br \/>\nI used to sit on cushions outside<br \/>\nLooking up squinting<br \/>\nPouring the drinks, laughing<br \/>\nCautioning him on the treachery of ladders<\/p>\n<p>Now a hedge eats the front of the house<br \/>\nI try not to see it<br \/>\nFlying past on the road<br \/>\nBecause I can\u2019t stop<br \/>\nHe isn\u2019t belly-deep in rushes<br \/>\nOr chasing pigs<br \/>\nHis dog doesn\u2019t hear my car coming<br \/>\nThere\u2019s nothing out-of-date to drink<br \/>\nNo one there<br \/>\nSince he\u2019s been gone<br \/>\nEvery day of the last ten years<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jessamine O Connor<\/strong> lives in south Sligo, facilitates <em>The Wrong Side of the Tracks Writers<\/em> group, and <em>The Hermit Collective<\/em> art\/music\/poetry performance ensemble, <a href=\"http:\/\/hermitcollective.weebly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Hermit Collective <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Note: <em>Hellsteeth<\/em> (winner of the Iyeats award 2011, on-line and installed in The Hawkswell Theatre etc)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Hellsteeth His house is sinking The tin roof crumbling He was springtime Up on rotten ladders Painting it red A balancing act Juggling brush, can, and glass I used to sit on cushions outside Looking up squinting Pouring the drinks, laughing Cautioning him on the treachery of ladders Now a hedge eats [&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-8491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491","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=8491"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8493,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8491\/revisions\/8493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}