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Demophobia<\/strong><\/p>\n From one microbe in a Petri dish to another For want of some pre-conceptual rubber, bumcheek by jowl, bumping into each other’s Whether waterwing, armband, vest or ring our heads above water, and the water’s rising. Please rescue this enochlophobe from <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sharon Larkin<\/strong>‘s poems have been published online (Clear Poetry, The Stare’s Nest)<\/em>, in magazines (Prole, Obsessed with Pipework<\/em>) and in anthologies (Cinnamon Press, Indigo Dreams). She blogs at Coming up with the Words<\/em> sharonlarkinjones.wordpress.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Twitter @SharLark<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Demophobia From one microbe in a Petri dish to another let me tell you of the pathology hereabouts. For want of some pre-conceptual rubber, we are rubbing along in diluted pollution, bumcheek by jowl, bumping into each other’s preferred form of buoyancy aid. Whether waterwing, armband, vest or ring only our faltering […]<\/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-12064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064","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=12064"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12566,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12064\/revisions\/12566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlet me tell you of the pathology hereabouts.<\/p>\n
\nwe are rubbing along in diluted pollution,<\/p>\n
\npreferred form of buoyancy aid.<\/p>\n
\nonly our faltering breath is keeping<\/p>\n
\nThere goes another ice-shelf.<\/p>\n
\nthe Malthusian catastrophe of her\u00a0 local lido.<\/p>\n