{"id":910,"date":"2010-12-02T19:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=910"},"modified":"2010-12-02T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-02T19:28:00","slug":"julia-stothard-is-letting-the-secret-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/julia-stothard-is-letting-the-secret-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Julia Stothard is letting the secret out"},"content":{"rendered":"

Letting the Secret Out<\/span>
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There is a child that grows inside her mouth,<\/span>
rooted like a word that cannot be spoken.<\/span>
 <\/span>
All night it flutters on the rough of her tongue,<\/span>
restlessly gulping liquid down.<\/span>
 <\/span>
She sleeps towards the wall, afraid to snore.<\/span>
In dreams, she tiptoes across hard floor<\/span>
 <\/span>
sees through the glass the echoes of moon<\/span>
and tells her secret, but wakes unheard<\/span>
 <\/span>
and tells her secret, but wakes unheard\u2026<\/span>


* Julia Stothard<\/span> lives in Middlesex and is a member of Sunbury Poetry Group. Poems published in <\/span>Iota, Interpreter's House<\/span> and <\/span>Pulsar Webzine<\/span>.

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Letting the Secret Out  There is a child that grows inside her mouth,rooted like a word that cannot be spoken. All night it flutters on the rough of her tongue,restlessly gulping liquid down. She sleeps towards the wall, afraid to snore.In dreams, she tiptoes across hard floor sees through the glass the echoes of moonand tells her secret, but […]<\/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-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","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=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}