{"id":9969,"date":"2016-01-23T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=9969"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:08:31","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:08:31","slug":"diana-brodie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/diana-brodie\/","title":{"rendered":"Diana Brodie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Happy<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some days he\u2019s happy.<br \/>\nOn Thursdays, he\u2019s happy.<br \/>\nWhen I leave home on work days,<br \/>\nwheel my bike from the shed,<br \/>\nwave to him one last goodbye,<br \/>\nhe\u2019s looking almost jaunty,<br \/>\nwearing his favourite striped tie.<\/p>\n<p>On these days, he\u2019s up early,<br \/>\nsings on his way to the bathroom,<br \/>\nhas time for no more than one coffee,<br \/>\none toast, then<br \/>\nhurries out to the kitchen, drags<br \/>\na high stool across the room<br \/>\nas far as the window.<\/p>\n<p>Neighbours say he stays<br \/>\nat the window<br \/>\nat least until lunchtime<br \/>\nand sometimes my brother<br \/>\ncomes very much later.<br \/>\nIf passers by wave to him,<br \/>\nhe doesn\u2019t see them.<br \/>\nMy father never takes his eye off the road.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Diana Brodie<\/strong> is a New Zealand poet who has lived in the UK for most of her life.\u00a0 Her poetry collection is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giottoscircle.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Giotto\u2019s Circle<\/em><\/a> (published 2013, Poetry Salzburg).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Happy Some days he\u2019s happy. On Thursdays, he\u2019s happy. When I leave home on work days, wheel my bike from the shed, wave to him one last goodbye, he\u2019s looking almost jaunty, wearing his favourite striped tie. On these days, he\u2019s up early, sings on his way to the bathroom, has time [&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":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969","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=9969"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23814,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9969\/revisions\/23814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}