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Seven Steps<\/strong><\/p>\n but the stream itself is in full spate<\/em> The first stepping stone is nearest the house <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n John Greening<\/strong>\u2019s latest Carcanet collection is To the War Poets<\/a> and a collaboration with Penelope Shuttle, Heath, appears from Nine Arches this June. His OUP edition of Edmund Blunden came out in 2015. He is RLF Writing Fellow at Newnham College, Cambridge. His website is www.johngreening.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven Steps but the stream itself is in full spate Dennis O\u2019Driscoll The first stepping stone is nearest the house Preparing the second, I discovered roots, and an immovable erratic The third stone rocked, rocked On the underside of the fourth, I signed my name, spoke a few words At the fifth stepping […]<\/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":[135,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11064","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\/11064","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=11064"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23824,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11064\/revisions\/23824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDennis O\u2019Driscoll<\/p>\n
\nPreparing the second, I discovered roots, and an immovable erratic
\nThe third stone rocked, rocked
\nOn the underside of the fourth, I signed my name, spoke a few words
\nAt the fifth stepping stone, I hit (then quickly dismissed) an electric cable
\nBy the sixth, the pond was in sight, and the path\u2019s curvature
\nPast last year\u2019s bonfire, through hawthorn, elder and sunset
\nI laid the seventh
\nNo use for an eighth stepping stone
\nso I leant it with some broken slates where the privy had once been<\/p>\n