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At Ernestine\u2019s instead of the funeral<\/strong><\/p>\n Two black trees Inside, my eye catches her step She brings me a beaker of juice, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarah Sibley<\/strong> currently lives in King’s Lynn and\u00a0works as a freelance copy editor. Her first pamphlet The Withering Room<\/em>\u00a0is available from Green Bottle Press. Twitter: @sibley_sarah)<\/p>\n NB: A version of this was first published in Obsessed with Pipework, Issue 65 (2014)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At Ernestine\u2019s instead of the funeral Two black trees a pair of charred hands hiding the bungalow\u2019s pebble face. Ernestine in the doorway. Inside, my eye catches her step as she kicks off teal slippers: dead spider a brown bow stuck to her bare sole. She brings me a beaker of juice, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10005"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10010,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10005\/revisions\/10010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na pair of charred hands
\nhiding the bungalow\u2019s pebble face.
\nErnestine in the doorway.<\/p>\n
\nas she kicks off teal slippers:
\ndead spider a brown bow
\nstuck to her bare sole.<\/p>\n
\na party plate full of Hula Hoops.
\nA fierce log fire licks dry
\nmy blurry eyes.<\/p>\n