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Inch By Inch<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n After his scalpel summer,<\/p>\n with the wheelchair butting Edwardian doorways<\/p>\n and my mother\u2019s light-hearted exhaustion,<\/p>\n my father built a nest against pain<\/p>\n around his red armchair:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elmore Leonards stacked<\/p>\n by the evening whisky glass,<\/p>\n popped foil weeks shed<\/p>\n across the cabled floor,<\/p>\n my son\u2019s get well card,<\/p>\n its dyspraxic, zimmer inches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julian Flanagan<\/strong> heads for the patio to write poems, then remembers he\u2019s given up smoking. They have been published in Ambit, Envoi, Iota<\/em> and co; and his journalism in The FT, Time Out<\/em>, economist.com and here www.julianflanagan.com<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inch By Inch After his scalpel summer, with the wheelchair butting Edwardian doorways and my mother\u2019s light-hearted exhaustion, my father built a nest against pain around his red armchair: Elmore Leonards stacked by the evening whisky glass, popped foil weeks shed across the cabled floor, my son\u2019s get well card, […]<\/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-10511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511","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=10511"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10513,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10511\/revisions\/10513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}