{"id":9497,"date":"2015-11-08T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-08T09:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9497"},"modified":"2015-11-09T13:29:08","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T13:29:08","slug":"ela-meyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/ela-meyer\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Summer Plans<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>for Maddy<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yours is a casual voice,<br \/>\nsloping down<br \/>\nthe 2nd,<br \/>\n8th,<br \/>\n20th of June<br \/>\ninto my basin;<br \/>\nbut I hear<em> se\u00a0 cond<\/em> \u2013<br \/>\nlips thread back then draw together,<br \/>\nyarning a sound, a shiver,<br \/>\nmouth full in the warmest water;<br \/>\n<em>eigh\u00a0 th<\/em> \u2013<br \/>\noar slackens,<br \/>\nthen tautens;<br \/>\n<em>twen\u00a0 ti\u00a0 eth<\/em> \u2013<br \/>\nlight strokes on water,<br \/>\nyet skin ripples with effort;<br \/>\nboat fills up,<br \/>\nhold,<br \/>\nrelease;<br \/>\n<em>June \u2013<\/em><br \/>\na kiss,<br \/>\nsurfacing at last,<br \/>\nbut the month tapers off too soon;<br \/>\nsix words from you<br \/>\non your plans for summer<br \/>\nmeans nineteen days alone,<br \/>\nmaking love of only numbers;<br \/>\n<em>I did tell you I was keen.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Rosa Walling-Wefelmeyer<\/em> lives in the North East of England. Her work has appeared in, amongst other things,<em> The American Aesthetic<\/em> and <em>The Journal<\/em> and can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/rosawallingwefelmeyer.wordpress.com\/\">rosawallingwefelmeyer.wordpress.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Summer Plans for Maddy &nbsp; Yours is a casual voice, sloping down the 2nd, 8th, 20th of June into my basin; but I hear se\u00a0 cond \u2013 lips thread back then draw together, yarning a sound, a shiver, mouth full in the warmest water; eigh\u00a0 th \u2013 oar slackens, then tautens; twen\u00a0 [&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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497","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=9497"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9500,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9497\/revisions\/9500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}