{"id":370,"date":"2013-03-18T20:10:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/?p=370"},"modified":"2013-03-18T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-03-18T20:24:21","slug":"a-journey-1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/a-journey-1996\/","title":{"rendered":"A Journey (1996)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the pebble beach I await a grim ferry,<br \/>\nits grinning timbers<br \/>\napproach the coral landing.<\/p>\n<p>Smiling oarsmen<br \/>\nhumusize beneath ancient cassocks,<br \/>\nat the stern<br \/>\nan ivory pilot reaps his path.<\/p>\n<p>Eddies of blood<br \/>\nfoaming over the water<br \/>\nconverge one cadaverous stratum,<br \/>\ncarrion seabirds<br \/>\nalight its dark surface. Overhead,<br \/>\naberrant clouds anvil the skies.<\/p>\n<p>The gulls are calling, and my leave-taking<br \/>\nthe familiar abeyance<br \/>\nthrusts consciousness through me.<\/p>\n<p>A beating chamber<br \/>\nencases my spirit like rusty armour;<br \/>\nmarks are appearing over my flesh,<br \/>\nthey are a mystery. Only the augural mariner<br \/>\ncomprehends such banes.<\/p>\n<p>I am nearing my destination, dark nourishment<br \/>\nabates my confinement. I am<br \/>\nwashed upon ashen shores\u2014<br \/>\nejected by waters, innate and primeval.<\/p>\n<p>On the dim horizon, an alluvial secrecy<br \/>\nawaits my embrace,<br \/>\nits ruddy complexion\u2014<br \/>\nabysmal and starless<br \/>\neffaces my blood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the pebble beach I await a grim ferry, its grinning timbers approach the coral landing. Smiling oarsmen humusize beneath ancient cassocks, at the stern an ivory pilot reaps his path. Eddies of blood foaming over the water converge one cadaverous stratum, carrion seabirds alight its dark surface. Overhead, aberrant clouds anvil the skies. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":374,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions\/374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.draigweb.co.uk\/draigweb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}