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My Place<\/strong><\/p>\n on the worn couch the indent of the cushions that seeks the warmth today some amend that written down words spoken through the use a contract of understanding we sit there is scant time now <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gareth Writer-Davies<\/strong> was Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition in 2015, Specially Commended in the Welsh Poetry Competition and Highly Commended in the Sherborne Open Poetry Competition. Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize in 2014.\u00a0 His first collection Bodies<\/em> is published by Indigo Press: http:\/\/www.indigodreams.co.uk\/gareth-writer-davies\/4587920255 My Place on the worn couch you sit in my place the indent of the cushions a loose fit for your small body that seeks the warmth I vowed you today I say nothing and let you be some amend made a bill paid that written down I owed words spoken spring […]<\/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-11034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034","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=11034"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11037,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11034\/revisions\/11037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyou sit
\nin my place<\/p>\n
\na loose fit
\nfor your small body<\/p>\n
\nI vowed you<\/p>\n
\nI say nothing
\nand let you be<\/p>\n
\nmade
\na bill paid<\/p>\n
\nI owed<\/p>\n
\nspring their meanings<\/p>\n
\nwe make of them<\/p>\n
\nfor the dull<\/p>\n
\nunspeaking<\/p>\n
\nto be alone<\/p>\n
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