{"id":870,"date":"2010-11-02T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=870"},"modified":"2010-11-02T11:16:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T11:16:00","slug":"rob-a-mackenzie-on-the-empty-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rob-a-mackenzie-on-the-empty-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob A. Mackenzie on the empty page"},"content":{"rendered":"

World Class<\/span>
 <\/span>
World class reputation became so much the norm <\/span>
among amateurs who had reviewed me positively <\/span>
that a cabinet for intangible effects was built, <\/span>
something like a cardboard box but not quite. <\/span>
 <\/span>
I worried that no one read my <\/span>de rien<\/span> sequence.<\/span>
Its natural constituency was busy writing to do lists <\/span>
and loading collections onto glass-bottomed liners <\/span>
for tourists to sink off the Mediterranean coast. <\/span>
 <\/span>
Bikini girl began my villanelle and dehydrated. <\/span>
I smiled. I had known it all along. I pulled on<\/span>
the cabinet\u2019s fake drawer and felt satisfied<\/span>
feeding it blank pages Xerox by Xerox.<\/span>
 <\/span>


* Rob A. Mackenzie <\/span>lives in Edinburgh. His poems and reviews have been published in many magazines, and his first collection, <\/span>The Opposite of Cabbage<\/a> was published by Salt in 2009. He blogs at <\/span>Surroundings<\/a>.<\/span>
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World Class World class reputation became so much the norm among amateurs who had reviewed me positively that a cabinet for intangible effects was built, something like a cardboard box but not quite.  I worried that no one read my de rien sequence.Its natural constituency was busy writing to do lists and loading collections onto glass-bottomed […]<\/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-870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870","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=870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}