{"id":8511,"date":"2015-05-11T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T08:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8511"},"modified":"2015-05-11T09:05:37","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T09:05:37","slug":"mike-shreeve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/mike-shreeve\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Shreeve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sun bears in Edinburgh Zoo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cold, so cold, the Coke tin sears the fingertips<br \/>\nKnife wind slits throats bloodlessly<br \/>\nPast the cartoon restaurant, soiled by cold chips on plastic trays<br \/>\nIn the craggy emptiness<br \/>\nPast the penguins who stand<br \/>\nWith time on their flippers<br \/>\nPast addresses of large cats<br \/>\nWho hide, except for the tiger<br \/>\nWho does not deign to look<br \/>\nAs we press our eyes against the glass<\/p>\n<p>The sun bear has long claws like trowels<br \/>\nHe has no sun and wants to go home<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mike Shreeve<\/strong> lives in Sussex and his poetry is inspired by people places, love and a sense of wonder which he calls the unknown. His recent collection Poems from the Unknown is available on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/dp\/B00QFFFJKU\/ref=nosim?tag=inswte0f-21\" target=\"_blank\">Kindle<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Sun bears in Edinburgh Zoo Cold, so cold, the Coke tin sears the fingertips Knife wind slits throats bloodlessly Past the cartoon restaurant, soiled by cold chips on plastic trays In the craggy emptiness Past the penguins who stand With time on their flippers Past addresses of large cats Who hide, except [&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-8511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511","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=8511"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8599,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8511\/revisions\/8599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}