Windmill-shoulder precipices
spinning gannet eggs on tangled
wildgrass snares, harbour bells booming and anchors
breaking spray beneath the bellows of bull-shark horns<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Pounding sails, roaring blades slitting skies driving cogs
exoskeletons crushed by bitter beaks, stinging seawater
stoking wounds in lips and scales
on tongues blander than clouds, edged knife-like like blood
and brine which wind the windings of the tongue the same way, salt<\/p>\n\n\n\n
in cuts smarting, stonefish, urchins, iodine easing pain through cracks in
skin and seagulls sliding, the twang of wires slipping through the
thrumming feathers of birds bumping against the empty skin
stretched across my window, a brief pretence of blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Windmill-shoulder precipicesspinning gannet eggs on tangledwildgrass snares, harbour bells booming and anchorsbreaking spray beneath the bellows of bull-shark horns Pounding sails, roaring blades slitting skies driving cogsexoskeletons crushed by bitter beaks, stinging seawaterstoking wounds in lips and scaleson tongues blander than clouds, edged knife-like like bloodand brine which wind the windings of the tongue the same way, salt in cuts smarting, stonefish, urchins, iodine easing pain through cracks inskin and seagulls sliding, the twang of wires slipping through thethrumming feathers of birds bumping against the empty skinstretched across my window, a brief pretence of blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/circlejourney.net\/writing\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}