{"id":20698,"date":"2024-11-25T01:58:36","date_gmt":"2024-11-25T01:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/?p=20698"},"modified":"2024-11-25T02:02:04","modified_gmt":"2024-11-25T02:02:04","slug":"destroying-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/destroying-angel\/","title":{"rendered":"destroying angel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>destroying angel<\/strong><\/p><p><em>by Fran Lock<\/em><\/p><p>this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonight<br>under the fractioned moon, we wait. we are<br>waiting. for the angel, rankly warriored out<br>of soft ground. or the long, expectant trench<br>of the year. an angel, yes, the melting stench<br>of him. how the mouth is swollen with moist<br>pique, and the spade splendours into pale<br>down, dewy with rot. o, groggy polypore, u<br>break beneath intrusion&#8217;s tread. but spread.<br>the air is lustred with rancid spore. we have<br>been waiting for the angel. angels, basin<br>saints, stooped in stale light. these teutons<br>of the timberline. will spit their felons&#8217;<br>absolutes. wetly, and in the wake of rain.<br>cloyed into columns. railing, weakly. do<br>not be deceived. the ragged wood will<br>cup the sluggish threat of them. a sword<br>raised in waltz-time. is growing. has<br>grown. the angel is here. sloughs off<br>its cataract of white gold. now the mouth<br>is bruised open. the world, transfigured<br>brittlely. bitter rusk of wing. fool\u2019s web<br>funeral bell. angel, over everything.<\/p><figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"190\" height=\"441\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel-190x441.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20699\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel-190x441.jpg 190w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel-129x300.jpg 129w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel-1x1.jpg 1w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel-4x10.jpg 4w, http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/destroying_angel.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 190px) 100vw, 190px\" \/><\/figure>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>destroying angel by Fran Lock this delicate supremacist, our cipher. tonightunder the fractioned moon, we wait. we arewaiting. for the angel, rankly warriored outof soft ground. or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":371,"featured_media":20700,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698","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\/371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20701,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20698\/revisions\/20701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}