{"id":427,"date":"2020-02-12T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-12T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unanchoreddays.co.uk\/?p=427"},"modified":"2020-02-11T11:24:59","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T11:24:59","slug":"lament-for-lidia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/?p=427","title":{"rendered":"Lament for Lidia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><em>(on the occasion of her fall from grace at St Paul\u2019s)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">no promise <br>\nof a retrospective<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">this, as all marble<br> is cold<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">   \u2003\u2003\u2003      stone of the dead<br>   \u2003\u2003\u2003      head stone tomb stone<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">it will neither welcome nor deny you <br>\nwhatever you give to it<br>\ncan\u2019t be received<br>\nor returned<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">what of the fall?<br>\nwhat filled that graced unseemly void?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">that last dance<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">were all your thoughts..<br> was your thought..<br> was there<br> thought?<br> was it lost, as you were?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I know I should care<br> I wish I had a howl in me for you<br> history and lies brokering<br> some stupid story<br> as we worked that day<br> with mops and buckets<br> toiling against uncanny gazes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I shed my own tears, all for me<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">such a joyless carnival<br>\nsham and shame<br>\nbent backs and old<br>\nstill enough to hold these bloodied fancies<br>\nabove the truth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(on the occasion of her fall from grace at St Paul\u2019s) no promise of a retrospective this, as all marble is cold \u2003\u2003\u2003 stone of the dead \u2003\u2003\u2003 head stone tomb stone it will neither welcome nor deny you whatever you give to it can\u2019t be received or returned what of the fall? what filled&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5,7,6],"class_list":["post-427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-poem","tag-poems-on-wordpress","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=427"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unanchoreddays.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}