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The curious absence of ducks in paintings by John Constable<\/strong><\/p>\n Were there none, or simply far I take a room above the mill race, Apparently it\u2019s all to be expected. I\u2019m seared by unkind laughter, this raucous all night mockery, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Since 2011 Kathy Gee<\/strong> has been published in magazines including The Interpreter\u2019s House, Obsessed with Pipework, Ink, Sweat and Tears, \u2018And Other Poems\u2019, Antiphon, Acumen <\/em>and Prole.<\/em> Her collection \u2013 Book of Bones<\/em> \u2013 will be published by V. Press in 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The curious absence of ducks in paintings by John Constable Were there none, or simply far beneath his notice? Dozens heckle my arrival, note my eagerness to hide. I take a room above the mill race, cry for six hours solid, reading self-help guides from W.H. Smith. Apparently it\u2019s all to be […]<\/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-10307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307","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=10307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10309,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10307\/revisions\/10309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nbeneath his notice? Dozens heckle
\nmy arrival, note my eagerness to hide.<\/p>\n
\ncry for six hours solid, reading
\nself-help guides from W.H. Smith.<\/p>\n
\nWailing isn\u2019t so unusual, although
\nthe knowing doesn\u2019t make it go away.<\/p>\n
\nloud as driving water, longer
\nthan recrimination, won\u2019t forget<\/p>\n
\nthe know-it-all malice of ducks.<\/p>\n