{"id":908,"date":"2010-12-01T12:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T12:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=908"},"modified":"2012-03-31T12:57:27","modified_gmt":"2012-03-31T12:57:27","slug":"helena-nelson-is-at-auchterawe-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/helena-nelson-is-at-auchterawe-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"Helena Nelson is at Auchterawe Wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Auchterawe Wood<\/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;\">This is how it is in the word:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">wind, water, wet, wood.<\/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;\">Filling, jurgling roll of stone,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">bird needle, flute of bone:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">this is how it is by ear.<\/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;\">Deep and dark.\u00a0 Viridian.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Flash of splash of falling light:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">this is how it is by eye.<\/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;\">Cheek of ice, feather breath,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">spat of wet, fluff of glove:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">this is how it is by touch.<\/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;\">Sharp sap, mulch and pine,<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">art of woodsmoke, O of nowhere:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">this is how it is by nose and tongue.<\/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;\">The wind, the wood, and hand in hand:<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">this is how it is by heart.<\/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;\" \/><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;\">*<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> Founder-editor of <\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happenstancepress.com\/\">HappenStance Press<\/a><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Helena Nelson<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> was a joint Jerwood Aldeburgh Prize winner with <\/span><span style=\"font-style: italic; font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">Starlight on Water<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\"> (Rialto, 2003). She has since self-published two light-verse pamphlets. Her second book-length collection,<\/span><a style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.happenstancepress.com\/index.php?page=shop.product_details&amp;flypage=flypage.tpl&amp;product_id=106&amp;category_id=19&amp;option=com_virtuemart&amp;Itemid=54\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\"> Plot and Counter-Plot <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\">(in which this poem appears), was published by Shoestring Press in 2010.<\/span><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><br style=\"font-family: Courier New,Courier,mono;\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Auchterawe WoodThis is how it is in the word:wind, water, wet, wood.Filling, jurgling roll of stone,bird needle, flute of bone:this is how it is by ear.Deep and dark.\u00a0 Viridian.Flash of splash of falling light:this is how it is by eye.Cheek of ice, feather breath,spat of wet, fluff of glove:this is how it is by touch.Sharp [&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-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","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=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1883,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/1883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}