{"id":676,"date":"2022-04-05T18:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mountainashchapter.com.au\/?p=676"},"modified":"2022-08-03T19:52:47","modified_gmt":"2022-08-03T09:52:47","slug":"the-walls-are-splattered-with-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mountainashchapter.com.au\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"The Walls Are Splattered With Blood"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-sitebg-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">The walls are splattered with blood.<br>My blood<br>my husband\u2019s blood<br>too much blood spilled tonight.<br>Grey ghosts we call them, or<br>White walkers<br>New arrivals, pale, nearly invisible,&nbsp;<br>evil<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sitebg-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">A gentle snore,<br>maybe human or canine<br>Not loud enough to keep me awake<br>I begin to dose off<br>Nervous system spiked alert<br>by the spine chilling zzzz in my ear<br>Smack, smack&nbsp;<br>with a back hand whack onto the pillow<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sitebg-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">Too awake now,&nbsp;<br>I read<br>begin to relax again<br>My glasses hurt my face as I smack myself in the head<br>That\u2019s it!<br>Switch on the light, slipper in hand<br>Whack, whack<br>Fresh blood on the walls<br>Die grey ghosts,&nbsp;<br>die<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-sitebg-background-color has-background wp-block-paragraph\">To read more quirky poetry from Amanda Gambas <a href=\"https:\/\/mountainashchapter.com.au\/?tag=amanda-gambas\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"9\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The walls are splattered with blood.My bloodmy husband\u2019s bloodtoo much blood spilled tonight.Grey ghosts we call them, orWhite walkersNew arrivals, pale, nearly invisible,&nbsp;evil A gentle &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19],"tags":[9,66,32,8,21],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry","tag-amanda-gambas","tag-blood","tag-humour","tag-mountain-ash-chapter","tag-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pff1uY-aU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3871,"url":"https:\/\/mountainashchapter.com.au\/?p=3871","url_meta":{"origin":676,"position":0},"title":"Inheritance","author":"Maggie McLaren","date":"October 3, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"All the men died,\u00a0or lefton fields of blood and to distant shores. 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