{"id":12468,"date":"2021-10-17T11:16:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cassandravoices.com\/?p=12468"},"modified":"2021-10-17T11:16:57","modified_gmt":"2021-10-17T10:16:57","slug":"poetry-nicholas-battey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/2021\/10\/17\/poetry-nicholas-battey\/","title":{"rendered":"Poetry: Nicholas Battey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Leaf-ladder to the Sky<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dusk drums down the harbour,<br \/>\nSeagull sirens sound alarms,<br \/>\nA quiet motor sings;<br \/>\nShards of mingling words slip away<br \/>\nWhere huddled houses hug the bay;<br \/>\nA fish flops on the scalloped sea,<br \/>\nRipples spreadly ring,<br \/>\nRing, and ring, diminishing, to me:<br \/>\nHere are all enchantments reined,<br \/>\nStowed within this compassed, solitary brain,<\/p>\n<p>Haven to the slopes of coastal trees<br \/>\nQuiffed by parching westerlies;<br \/>\nAlso, yellow leontodon,<br \/>\nSpeckled on banks like sodium stars,<br \/>\nWhere dreadlocked gorse gives way to grass;<br \/>\nSheep-clipped sward; sun-lidded eyes; Doppler flies;<br \/>\nVarious winds playing on and on,<br \/>\nWhile brambles leaf-ladder to the sky:<br \/>\nHere are all enchantments lain,<br \/>\nMeaningless, but marvellous, just the same.<\/p>\n<p>Half-moon, bling of eventide<br \/>\nHauls on saps which flow in time<br \/>\nTo an ancient pulse;<br \/>\nWyrt and weed together hear<br \/>\nThe chuckle of the inner sphere;<br \/>\nClackery of wind in rigging<br \/>\nSees strait waters salsa,<br \/>\nSlap; soon sea-swells serry unforgiving:<br \/>\nHere are all enchantments made;<br \/>\nOut there, the consequences born, and paid.<\/p>\n<p>Roses like suns arise and grow<br \/>\nAcross the ramshackle brow;<br \/>\nA heavy scent<br \/>\nSwallows on the drooping air,<br \/>\nIs gone, recalled as summer<br \/>\nIn the addled world behind,<br \/>\nWhere wishes, sentiment<br \/>\nAnd bamboozling nature recombine;<br \/>\nHence are all enchantments lulls,<br \/>\nHummed by puzzled gardeners of the skull.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Featured Image: Daniele Idini<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaf-ladder to the Sky Dusk drums down the harbour, Seagull sirens sound alarms, A quiet motor sings; Shards of mingling words slip away Where huddled houses hug the bay; A fish flops on the scalloped sea, Ripples spreadly ring, Ring, and ring, diminishing, to me: Here are all enchantments reined, Stowed within this compassed, solitary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":12467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[842,1449,5391,6580,6581,6583,6593,6595,7341],"class_list":["post-12468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-battey","tag-cassandra-voices-poetry","tag-leaf-ladder","tag-nicholas","tag-nicholas-battey","tag-nicholas-battey-cassandra-voices","tag-nicholas-battey-poem","tag-nicholas-battey-poetry","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casswp.eutonom.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}