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Ghazal:\u00a0 Trace<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nothing\u2019s better than our laughter, on earth, Make every second count, the years stride on Night falls quickly, with the fluttering bats A mulberry squashes, hard to pick, it drops, If this is how our floating world is made Could there be heaven later, when we\u2019re gone, Nothing could be sweeter in night air And, an aside you almost hear, Janet, <\/p>\n Janet Hatherley is a London teacher who has recently come back to poetry.\u00a0 She has published in The Lake<\/em>, The Copperfield Review<\/em>, has work forthcoming in Obsessed With Pipework<\/em> and has won third prize in the 2015 Barnet Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghazal:\u00a0 Trace Nothing\u2019s better than our laughter, on earth, daughter, Mum, me, in stitches, dafter, on earth. Make every second count, the years stride on as time\u2019s a serial grafter, on earth. Night falls quickly, with the fluttering bats and nothing could be softer, on earth. A mulberry squashes, hard to pick, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10346"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10373,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10346\/revisions\/10373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndaughter, Mum, me, in stitches, dafter, on earth.<\/p>\n
\nas time\u2019s a serial grafter, on earth.<\/p>\n
\nand nothing could be softer, on earth.<\/p>\n
\nleaves a blood red stain thereafter, on earth.<\/p>\n
\nthen who\u2019s presiding, the drafter, on earth?<\/p>\n
\nor just us, raising rafters, on earth?<\/p>\n
\nthan jasmine\u2019s trace hereafter, on earth.<\/p>\n
\nis it memory lingering after, on earth?<\/p>\n