{"id":995,"date":"2007-05-08T12:51:52","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:51:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=995"},"modified":"2007-05-08T12:51:52","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T12:51:52","slug":"three-poems-by-dave-migman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-poems-by-dave-migman\/","title":{"rendered":"Three poems by Dave Migman"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spiral<\/span>
 <\/span>
the rock<\/span>
is gone<\/span>
the ground<\/span>
swept<\/span>
clean under.<\/span>
 <\/span>
the wait<\/span>
is long<\/span>
the clock<\/span>
sweeps slowly<\/span>
 <\/span>
around our faces.<\/span><\/span>
<\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – –

\n<\/span><\/font>
<\/font>
Homage to Mountain<\/span>
<\/span> <\/span>
sickle back mountain white bone<\/span>
red flesh parting snaggletooth holly<\/span>
and olive hair<\/span>
 <\/span>
shallow roots fasten eroding boulders<\/span>
in silence across your stone brow<\/span>
solitude amongst the smell of thyme<\/span>
and the fox who leaves<\/span>
the fragrance of his passing<\/span>
 <\/span>
cavern worn eyes<\/span>
blinded by the turning millennia<\/span>
mountain face to god-home<\/span>
of ancients. Scar turned flesh storm tasted<\/span>
winds have smothered, rains eroded<\/span>
your cataracts hold fast<\/span>
 <\/span>
no longer does it feel<\/span>
fire throb through cavernous<\/span>
arteries reach deep under<\/span>
rooted bastion of his face<\/span>
god-home rock brow<\/span>
I walk your bitten profile<\/span>
my feet are sure.<\/span>
 <\/span><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n

– – – – – – – – –

\n<\/span><\/font><\/font>

The touch of a\u2211<\/span>
<\/span><\/span>
Last night the tent<\/span>
shivered<\/span>
sighed<\/span>
and I moaned<\/span>
in sweet dream<\/span>
locked<\/span>
forgotten faces<\/span>
while she snored<\/span>
beside me.<\/span>
I awoke<\/span>
loins<\/span>
slick<\/span>
shifting uncomfortably<\/span>
shamed for a moment<\/span>
by the memory<\/span>
of the dream.<\/span>
 <\/span>
<\/span> <\/span>
\u2022 Dave Migman is a stone carver from Scotland. His work has been published in numerous poetry zines in the UK and his short stories appear sporadically on-line.<\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Spiral the rockis gonethe groundsweptclean under. the waitis longthe clocksweeps slowly around our faces. – – – – – – – – – Homage to Mountain sickle back mountain white bonered flesh parting snaggletooth hollyand olive hair shallow roots fasten eroding bouldersin silence across your stone browsolitude amongst the smell of thymeand the fox who leavesthe fragrance of his passing cavern […]<\/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-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}