{"id":9199,"date":"2015-09-21T08:00:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T08:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9199"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:03:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:03:34","slug":"beth-mcdonough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/beth-mcdonough\/","title":{"rendered":"Beth McDonough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Swimming before the May<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We heed their banter in winds<\/p>\n<p>though we cover our ears.<\/p>\n<p>Ready to shark our flesh then<\/p>\n<p>flense to a clench of bare bones.<\/p>\n<p>Swirled in the rip<\/p>\n<p>they whip up waves.<\/p>\n<p>We enter aware<\/p>\n<p>who lords all of this water and air.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are whirligig gods in here.<\/p>\n<p>Take care. Take care.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Beth McDonough<\/strong> often writes on a maternal experience of disability, finding poems whilst foraging and swimming outdoors. Currently Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts, her poems are published in <em>Gutter, The Interpreter&#8217;s House, Antiphon<\/em> and other beautiful places.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Swimming before the May &nbsp; We heed their banter in winds though we cover our ears. Ready to shark our flesh then flense to a clench of bare bones. Swirled in the rip they whip up waves. We enter aware who lords all of this water and air. &nbsp; There are whirligig [&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":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199","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=9199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9442,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9199\/revisions\/9442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}