{"id":859,"date":"2010-10-23T14:56:40","date_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=859"},"modified":"2010-10-23T14:56:40","modified_gmt":"2010-10-23T14:56:40","slug":"new-poetry-matthew-stewart-remembers-paco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/new-poetry-matthew-stewart-remembers-paco\/","title":{"rendered":"New poetry: Matthew Stewart remembers Paco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Paco, Mum And Me<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Months since he\u2019d watched her cook and loop<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">a rogue strand of hair from her cheek,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">months that had just concertinaed<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">like abandoned cars being scrapped.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">This is how I still replay him,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">stood at the door, back for that night.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">She chopped a carrot, glanced and grinned.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">I stroked my doll and let them talk,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">not showing I\u2019d noticed her arm<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">cup his head en route to the salt.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">* Matthew Stewart<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> lives between West Sussex and Extremadura, Spain. He<br \/>\nblogs on UK and Spanish poetry at <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/roguestrands.blogspot.com\">http:\/\/roguestrands.blogspot.com<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> and<br \/>\n his pamphlet collection will be published by Happenstance Press in<br \/>\n2011.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paco, Mum And MeMonths since he\u2019d watched her cook and loopa rogue strand of hair from her cheek,months that had just concertinaedlike abandoned cars being scrapped.This is how I still replay him,stood at the door, back for that night.She chopped a carrot, glanced and grinned.I stroked my doll and let them talk,not showing I\u2019d noticed [&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-859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859","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=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}