{"id":9087,"date":"2015-08-30T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9087"},"modified":"2015-07-29T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T14:50:00","slug":"ron-riekki","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ron-riekki\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron Riekki"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Panic Attacks<\/strong><\/p>\n

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They\u2019re like swallowing rust.<\/p>\n

The tongue tries to be a shield,<\/p>\n

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but the bed explodes.\u00a0 The best<\/p>\n

bet is avoiding the avalanche<\/p>\n

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of thought by forcing a monk<\/p>\n

mind set or\u2014what I do\u2014just<\/p>\n

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jumping off the cliff so I fall<\/p>\n

sixty stories into something<\/p>\n

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that never seems to kill me.<\/p>\n

Thank God . . . and all else.<\/p>\n

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Ron Riekki<\/strong>‘s books include U.P.: a novel<\/em>, The Way North: Collected Upper Peninsula New Works<\/em> (2014 Michigan Notable Book), and ” target=”_blank”>Here: Women Writing on Michigan’s Upper Peninsula<\/a><\/em>\u00a0.\u00a0 Twitter: @RonRiekki.<\/p>\n

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      Panic Attacks   They\u2019re like swallowing rust. The tongue tries to be a shield,   but the bed explodes.\u00a0 The best bet is avoiding the avalanche   of thought by forcing a monk mind set or\u2014what I do\u2014just   jumping off the cliff so I fall sixty stories into something   that […]<\/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-9087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087","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=9087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9088,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9087\/revisions\/9088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}