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Fairy Dell<\/strong><\/p>\n Riverside section within Stubbylee Park, Stacksteads.<\/em> The ground is digesting are being swallowed. the ground there is hungrier my first memories of the earth, find it sullen and negatively charged. The wooden shoe we carved at school with dirt, our well of old water behind ash trees, the stones half-chewed but the orange sky, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lew Kelly<\/strong> is a recent graduate of LJMU. He has previously been published in Cake, In The Red, 1533 <\/em>and ISWrite<\/em>. He’s currently publishing Lifejacket<\/em>, an anthology to support refugees. His poetry aims to re-enchant adulthood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fairy Dell Riverside section within Stubbylee Park, Stacksteads. Sophie Lancaster was fatally assaulted in the park in August 2007. The ground is digesting the park in its underbelly. All the things that used to shimmer are being swallowed. The rust dappled skate-park does not welcome me, the ground there is hungrier since […]<\/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-12022","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\/12022","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=12022"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12024,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12022\/revisions\/12024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSophie Lancaster was fatally assaulted in the park in August 2007.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthe park in its underbelly.
\nAll the things that used to shimmer<\/p>\n
\nThe rust dappled skate-park
\ndoes not welcome me,<\/p>\n
\nsince it happened.
\nIt has already taken so much:<\/p>\n
\nher blood, her last words.
\nI find Fairy Dell, ten years on,<\/p>\n
\nI wonder, is it still Fairy Dell
\nor just another riverside road?<\/p>\n
\nis licked with rot.
\nThe witches\u2019 cauldron is clogged<\/p>\n
\nwe\u2019d stir, chanting, casting.
\nBehind it, the stone circle hides<\/p>\n
\nby the earth. It will keep devouring
\nuntil there is nothing left<\/p>\n
\ntiny rotting organisms
\nstagnating the fringe of the pond.<\/p>\n