{"id":9712,"date":"2015-12-08T09:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T09:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9712"},"modified":"2015-11-26T15:20:14","modified_gmt":"2015-11-26T15:20:14","slug":"fiona-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/fiona-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The moment when you catch the blackbird\u2019s eye<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I know the moment when you catch the blackbird\u2019s eye,<br \/>\nbetween the bus stop six yards ahead and the arrival<br \/>\nof all those thoughts. Run to catch them<br \/>\nand keep running.<br \/>\nslug pencils translucent grey in the rain.<br \/>\ndrops on drops running into drops on a leaf.<br \/>\nI milked everything to death.<br \/>\na yellow butterfly clung to my coat<br \/>\non the vauxhall bridge road and stayed<br \/>\nall the way down until in pity and panic<br \/>\nthe dark arches of victoria station looming<br \/>\ni shook it off into a window box,<br \/>\nnot feeling its happiness on the train.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Marshall<\/strong> is a writer and a commissioning editor at a non-fiction publisher. She has published 10 non-fiction books, poetry and short stories, and a novel, <em>Absence<\/em>. Her short stories can be viewed at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etherbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ether Books <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; The moment when you catch the blackbird\u2019s eye I know the moment when you catch the blackbird\u2019s eye, between the bus stop six yards ahead and the arrival of all those thoughts. Run to catch them and keep running. slug pencils translucent grey in the rain. drops on drops running into drops [&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-9712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712","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=9712"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9715,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9712\/revisions\/9715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}