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This Too Is Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n No, not some lover’s this: green fluorescent to turn our cells to as they go about maintenance. Now they of course, benign But how much better, <\/p>\n Tania Hershman<\/strong> is the author of a poetry chapbook, Nothing Here Is Wild, Everything Is Open<\/em> (Southword, 2016) from which this poem is taken, and two story collections. She is curator of ShortStops (www.shortstops.info<\/a>), and is completing a PhD in Creative Writing inspired by particle physics. www.taniahershman.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Too Is Prayer No, not some lover’s glance, a newborn’s grin, sunset, autumn leaves – but this: green fluorescent protein, a molecule borrowed from the jellyfish to turn our cells to glowing dancing labourers we applaud as they go about their daily tasks: building inspection, maintenance. Now they have us to witness […]<\/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-11261","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\/11261","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=11261"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23821,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11261\/revisions\/23821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nglance, a newborn’s grin,
\nsunset, autumn leaves – but<\/p>\n
\nprotein, a molecule
\nborrowed from the jellyfish<\/p>\n
\nglowing dancing
\nlabourers we applaud<\/p>\n
\ntheir daily tasks:
\nbuilding inspection,<\/p>\n
\nhave us to witness
\ntheir every act; not just,<\/p>\n
\nconstruction. Not
\njust, of course, repair.<\/p>\n
\nthough, to see. Better
\nto no longer be in darkness<\/p>\n