{"id":14685,"date":"2022-06-10T10:28:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/queeny-land-er-indoors\/"},"modified":"2022-06-10T10:28:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T09:28:39","slug":"queeny-land-er-indoors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/queeny-land-er-indoors\/","title":{"rendered":"queeny land \/ \u2019er indoors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-14683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6401108ad245c086aa79c48f1d124c7c.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"380\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6401108ad245c086aa79c48f1d124c7c.jpg 380w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6401108ad245c086aa79c48f1d124c7c-273x300.jpg 273w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6401108ad245c086aa79c48f1d124c7c-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/6401108ad245c086aa79c48f1d124c7c-10x10.jpg 10w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 380px) 100vw, 380px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>queeny land \/ \u2019er indoors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>by Fran Lock<\/em><\/p>\n<p>i<\/p>\n<p>coined us a country. \u2019er indoors <br \/>is a branked scold crowned <br \/>at the kirk, hands in the hinged<br \/>pillory of power, confession\u2019s<br \/>fork between breast and neck.<br \/>\u2019er indoors is milking a shrew\u2019s<br \/>fiddle into music. smiles as \u2019er<br \/>writhes, is kitsching the gilded<br \/>freight of flame, frocked for<br \/>the fire, us sinew passed <br \/>through a calyx eye. crewel-<br \/>work crochet, corded lace.<br \/>into the gown\u2019s embroidered <br \/>yoke: couched loops, golden<br \/>bugle beads. into the fust <br \/>of coming dread. and birdsong<br \/>stilled, the clocksong whirs.<\/p>\n<p>ii<\/p>\n<p>for the long-winded letting<br \/>of blood. priests, roused to <br \/>procession, routed from holes<br \/>in the snug dust blown from <br \/>a family bible, \u2019er writes <br \/>the tidings of us sect, will <br \/>carry this in \u2019er tyrant\u2019s circlet, <br \/>sprouting narrow horns of light. <br \/>pageant, whose sleeves the gory <br \/>oriflamme of agincourt; banderols<br \/>of famine cut from sack. \u2019er <br \/>trodden hem is red, is rot\u2019s musk<br \/>wafting. partition\u2019s plough. us <br \/>am the offals of empire. awful<br \/>treyf. us camps. us cargoes. us<br \/>wealth of nations. silent. but \u2019er<br \/>indoors is a stunt ghost, draped in<br \/>glory. majesty grows over \u2019er<br \/>like briars. \u2019er bows \u2019er head. <br \/>they quack their raving magic<br \/>for the crowds: pinched faces,<br \/>plebby-gobs, round around <br \/>their bent pennies.<\/p>\n<p>iii<\/p>\n<p>littled to a sufferance of souvenirs,<br \/>\u2019er husky rumour bates the racist<br \/>breath of cabbies; face franked <br \/>onto shankill terraces, hooky curios.<br \/>\u2019er rise remade in the blue tattoos <br \/>of cheap fidelity. bargains binned.<br \/>is hanging in the smallest rooms <br \/>of east-end gangsters. \u2019er face in<br \/>the saturated glyphs of pure slogan.<br \/>is hoary and floral on netflix. is<br \/>camping through tabloids, lights<br \/>up the iphones of touristing teens.<br \/>hands flap at \u2019er like gulls. \u2019er<br \/>closes \u2019er grim endorsement <br \/>over them, a smiling arcade claw.<\/p>\n<p>iv<\/p>\n<p>the slow orbital warp<br \/>of decay will scatter us <br \/>stars. the sundered wold<br \/>in flood, a beast\u2019s last <br \/>cunning trumped by<br \/>gun or hunger. this,<br \/>\u2019er world. the stale<br \/>vow grafted into iambs<br \/>by poets in love with<br \/>the sound of their own<br \/>entropy. \u2019er does a fucked<br \/>mysterium, an end times<br \/>charleston of musical chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>queeny land \/ \u2019er indoors by Fran Lock i coined us a country. \u2019er indoors is a branked scold crowned at the kirk, hands in the hingedpillory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":14683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[2632],"class_list":["post-14685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2","tag-queenhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/423"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}