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Word<\/strong><\/p>\n A word under a mountain A word that means something A word in conjunction The homesick word, Words foregoing the alphabet Look at this word a long time, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pushcart nominee Bruce McRae<\/strong> is a Canadian musician with over 900 poems published internationally, including Poetry.com, Rattle and The North American Review<\/em>. His first book, The So-Called Sonnets<\/em> is available via Silenced Press and Amazon. To see and hear more poems go to : BruceMcRaePoetry<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Word A word under a mountain or hid behind the woodstove. A word against deviltry, a hypothetical construction spoken by a trousered ape. A word that means something other than what it means. Graced with veins and speckles. With pieces torn out of it. A word in conjunction with another word. You […]<\/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-10133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133","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=10133"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10136,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10133\/revisions\/10136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nor hid behind the woodstove.
\nA word against deviltry,
\na hypothetical construction
\nspoken by a trousered ape.<\/p>\n
\nother than what it means.
\nGraced with veins and speckles.
\nWith pieces torn out of it.<\/p>\n
\nwith another word.
\nYou say it and it stays said,
\nthough it can never be written.<\/p>\n
\noverwrought with describing itself,
\npleading for absolution.<\/p>\n
\nand changing into names,
\ninto numbers and colours,
\ninto pictures blurred by sentiment.<\/p>\n
\nan intellectual exercise.
\nRead into it what you want,
\ndefinition a shackle,
\nevery word a lip split.
\nEvery word a bloody mouthful.<\/p>\n