{"id":94,"date":"2012-03-04T17:37:54","date_gmt":"2012-03-04T17:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=94"},"modified":"2020-12-09T16:52:52","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:52:52","slug":"angela-croft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/angela-croft\/","title":{"rendered":"Angela Croft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Angel<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He found the passport<br \/>\non the Northern Line<br \/>\ndidn\u2019t hand it in<br \/>\nkept it buried in a drawer<br \/>\nunder a tangle of socks and ties<br \/>\ntakes it out from time to time<br \/>\nto consider her startled eyes<br \/>\nher speechless mouth<br \/>\nthe place where she was born<br \/>\nwonder at the foreign name<br \/>\nthat slavers on his tongue<br \/>\nas he seals her in his wallet<br \/>\nshields her from the sun<br \/>\n<strong>*Angela Croft<\/strong> is a walker \u2013 and a runner up &#8211; in the British Red Cross competition to mark the Day of the Disappeared; Aesthetica Creative Writing Annual and highly commended by Mslexia recently for her poem on motherhood. Quite a feat since she has no children&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This poem first appeared the Delinquent 16 Dec 11 and included an error.\u00a0 This is the correct version.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angel He found the passport on the Northern Line didn\u2019t hand it in kept it buried in a drawer under a tangle of socks and ties takes it out from time to time to consider her startled eyes her speechless mouth the place where she was born wonder at the foreign name that slavers on [&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-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","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=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23889,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/23889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}