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The trouble with pairs<\/strong><\/p>\n I want to be inside of you I want to unzip you Big toe first, then Until I\u2019m fully upright Your sinews and synapses I don\u2019t want to meet Or where parts may be I want to get inside so far Where two truly are one Close is never close enough<\/p>\n And isn\u2019t that the trouble with <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deirdre Fagan<\/strong> is a widow, newlywed, and mother of two. She teaches at Ferris State University and writes poetry, stories, and memoir during life’s pauses. Her work has appeared in Bartleby Snopes, Connotation Press, Grey Sparrow Press, <\/em>and Melancholy Hyperbole<\/em>, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The trouble with pairs I want to be inside of you No, not like that I want to unzip you And climb inside Big toe first, then a dipping of my head Until I\u2019m fully upright and enclosed in your dark Your sinews and synapses making room for all of me I […]<\/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-11568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568","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=11568"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11570,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11568\/revisions\/11570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNo, not like that<\/p>\n
\nAnd climb inside<\/p>\n
\na dipping of my head<\/p>\n
\nand enclosed in your dark<\/p>\n
\nmaking room for all of me<\/p>\n
\nwhere lips meet, anymore<\/p>\n
\njoined, but inevitably part<\/p>\n
\nthere is no getting out<\/p>\n
\nand departure becomes impossible<\/p>\n
\npairs?<\/p>\n