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Hurrying Woman circa 1912<\/strong> This is my idea of cleaning: He\u2019s at it again, the artist, But I\u2019m off! Out in a boat The artist holds his brush out He\u2019s determined to fix me. He\u2019d better take a long look, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chrissy Banks<\/strong> has recently moved to Exeter and stopped working as a therapist in order to spend more time writing. She is now finding many house renovation displacement activities. Chrissy has poems in many anthologies and magazines, including the Rialto, the North, South and the Broadsheet<\/em> as well as a pamphlet, Watching the Home Movies<\/em> and a collection, Days of Fire and Flood,<\/em> now out of print. www.chrissybankspoetry.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Hurrying Woman circa 1912 after a sketch held in the archive at Marjons College, Plymouth This is my idea of cleaning: to polish the mahogany as I slide full speed down the helter skelter bannisters. He\u2019s at it again, the artist, moony-eyed, trying to catch me. But I\u2019m off! Out in a […]<\/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-11038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038","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=11038"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11041,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11038\/revisions\/11041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nafter a sketch held in the archive at Marjons College, Plymouth<\/em><\/p>\n
\nto polish the mahogany
\nas I slide full speed
\ndown the helter skelter bannisters.<\/p>\n
\nmoony-eyed, trying to catch me.<\/p>\n
\nwith a loud hailer, to Westminster,
\nto barrack the politicians
\nwho\u2019ve snaffled my rights.<\/p>\n
\nto measure me, poor love.<\/p>\n
\nWell, he may as well try holding
\na streak of flame, a running river.
\nGood luck to him, I say.<\/p>\n
\nsharpen his pencil.<\/p>\n