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Summerlands<\/strong><\/p>\n Willow man farms At leaf fall he harvests At home his wife dusts the crib as tight sinews, proud Their willow lines Old Yeo\u2019s banks deep in osier-cradled earth. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jan Harris<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has appeared in Popshot, Envoi, Snakeskin<\/em>, other literary magazines and numerous anthologies.\u00a0 She lives in Nottinghamshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Summerlands Willow man farms the summerlands, tends black maul in its bed of clay. At leaf fall he harvests young stems by machine. His father\u2019s billhook rusts unused. At home his wife dusts the crib great-grandmother wove from withies, stripped white as tight sinews, proud on her hand when she twined the […]<\/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-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","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=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12609,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe summerlands, tends
\nblack maul in its bed of clay.<\/p>\n
\nyoung stems by machine.
\nHis father\u2019s billhook rusts unused.<\/p>\n
\ngreat-grandmother wove
\nfrom withies, stripped white<\/p>\n
\non her hand when she twined
\nthe pliant wands to shape.<\/p>\n
\nwhere whimbrel-song springs
\nand water voles burrow<\/p>\n
\nAnd there they sleep,
\nclose to the river\u2019s lap and lull.<\/p>\n