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Lit up<\/strong><\/p>\n They lift sweetie-sharp glow-stars Colour-studded, so damned The grit-stars shoot all night: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Holly Magill<\/strong> is from Worcestershire. Her poetry has appeared in various publications, including Lunar Poetry, The Stare\u2019s Nest<\/em> and The Emma Press anthology of Mildly Erotic Verse<\/em>. She prefers cats and strong tea to most things.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lit up They lift sweetie-sharp glow-stars on tips of licked fingers, glue them, neon scabs, to the inside of her skull \u2013 she is lit. Colour-studded, so damned pretty \u2013 a reverse Easter egg for the cracking. The grit-stars shoot all night: there is no off-switch, no plug to pull, no wire […]<\/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-11577","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\/11577","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=11577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11923,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11577\/revisions\/11923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\non tips of licked fingers, glue
\nthem, neon scabs, to the inside
\nof her skull \u2013 she is lit.<\/p>\n
\npretty \u2013 a reverse Easter egg
\nfor the cracking.<\/p>\n
\nthere is no off-switch, no plug
\nto pull, no wire to cut.
\nHer skin chafes
\ntender-tasting every grain
\nas her eyes roll back in her head.<\/p>\n