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The Voice, The Sound, The Song<\/strong> 1<\/strong> * 2<\/strong> * * <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rebecca Tantony<\/strong> graduated from Bath Spa University with a First Class Honours in Creative Writing. She’s currently completing her Masters in Poetry at the same institute. In 2015 Burning Eye Books published her first collection, Talk You Round Till Dusk <\/em><\/a>Website: <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Voice, The Sound, The Song England’s education secretary Nicky Morgan has rejected MPs’ calls to make sex-and-relationship education compulsory in all schools \u2013 BBC News, 11th February, 2016 1 A congregation of girls rattling like tambourines were once played in the back of cars. Detached dance-hall tracks and the reek of […]<\/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-12121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121","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=12121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12123,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12121\/revisions\/12123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEngland’s education secretary Nicky Morgan has rejected MPs’ calls to make sex-and-relationship<\/em>
\n education compulsory in all schools<\/em> \u2013 BBC News, 11th February, 2016<\/p>\n
\nA congregation of girls rattling
\nlike tambourines were once played
\nin the back of cars. Detached
\ndance-hall tracks and the reek
\nof aftershave choked. While the boys
\nsweated out some kind of love-language
\nhard to swallow, those girls kept cotton-wool
\nin their mouths. Stuffed ears with fingers,
\nthought of themselves erupting into song,
\nbut remained silent \u2013
\nconvinced they needed someone
\nelse’s tongue to make them sing.<\/p>\n
\nWhere did he learn to roll over
\nand welcome the moon in so quickly?
\nWhile she\u2019s still wide-eyed
\nand waiting for a crescendo
\nto rush her skin, an orchestra
\nof high and low notes to lift
\nher skywards like a hymn. !
\nWhere did she learn that sex
\nwas nothing but the tune
\nof repentance? The waltz
\nof his hands so quick to start
\nand stop. When did the break
\nof her heart turn into a love
\nsong writing its own end?<\/p>\n
\nA congregation of boys blowing
\nlike trumpets were once played
\nin the back of cars. Detached
\ndance hall tracks and the reek
\nof perfume choked. While the girls
\nsweated some kind of love-language
\nhard to swallow, those boys bit
\ntheir lips broken,kept their eyes glazed,
\nthought of themselves erupting into song
\nbut remained silent \u2013
\nconvinced they needed someone
\nelse’s tongue to make them sing.<\/p>\n
\nWhere did she learn to roll over
\nand shut out the sun, while he practised
\na duet solo? A role created
\nfrom online videos.
\nWhere did he learn that a maestro
\nplays a lonely longing
\non the backbone of him? !
\nVoice breaks with age
\nfrom countertenor to bass,
\nyet he still stays misunderstood.
\nWhy did he think that sex
\nwas nothing but the slow dance
\nof her leaving?<\/p>\n
\nNever taught the whole note
\nof skin, never taught the fine tuning
\nof fingers across flesh, the treble of pleasure,
\nthe rhythm of two equal humans
\nmoving through the scales of each
\nothers’\u00a0 voices.<\/p>\n
\nwww.rebecca-tantony.com<\/a><\/p>\n