{"id":9042,"date":"2015-08-17T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T08:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9042"},"modified":"2015-07-29T13:27:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T13:27:16","slug":"simon-collings-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/simon-collings-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Collings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Going up<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Out on the balcony A\u2019s drag artist friend is talking about \u2018replenishing minerals\u2019. It was in the news apparently, a slow downbeat of an idea gumming up the waste disposal. Our host appears discouraged by the indeterminacy of the project. The structure is now on jacks and due to be lifted higher. No one knows where else to go with it. Noises from the street, suggest a procession, or maybe gridlocked traffic, an emergency vehicle trying to find a way through. Meanwhile the party \u2018\u2026meanders into a fluid execution of many details.\u2019 H advocates \u2018more granular approaches\u2019 a way of bringing everything down to eye level, the logic crepuscular though referencing an earlier system of flags. T suggests a classical analogy involving masks. Later the meaning wanders off on its own past the familiar landmarks though there\u2019s still no sign of a border.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Collings<\/strong> lives in Oxford, UK. His poems have appeared in <em>IS&amp;T, The Interpreter&#8217;s House, Neon, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, New Walk <\/em>and<em> Brittle Star.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/simoncollings.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/simoncollings.wordpress.com\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Going up &nbsp; Out on the balcony A\u2019s drag artist friend is talking about \u2018replenishing minerals\u2019. It was in the news apparently, a slow downbeat of an idea gumming up the waste disposal. Our host appears discouraged by the indeterminacy of the project. The structure is now on jacks and due to [&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-9042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042","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=9042"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9044,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9042\/revisions\/9044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}