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Glee<\/strong><\/p>\n Just as in the song she\u2019d So the words fall down <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carolyn Oulton\u2019<\/strong>s A Child, a Death and the Making of the Fairy Tale Woman<\/em> was published by Bewrite Books in 2011 and her new collection Accidental Fruit<\/em> will be published by Worple Press in autumn 2016. http:\/\/www.carolynoulton.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Glee Just as in the song she\u2019d take out the ironing to get at the cupboard to open the dishwasher unload the racks go back to the table to pick up the plates to clear off the crumbs bin the crusts, move the marmite play gogos So the words fall down all over […]<\/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-12426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426","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=12426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13211,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12426\/revisions\/13211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntake out the ironing
\nto get at the cupboard
\nto open the dishwasher
\nunload the racks
\ngo back to the table
\nto pick up the plates
\nto clear off the crumbs
\nbin the crusts, move
\nthe marmite
\nplay gogos<\/p>\n
\nall over it, the crying child
\nwho won\u2019t wait.
\nThe sea is watching
\nwith hooded eyes,
\na shout that is also
\na cake, a splodge
\nof cream, a shaking
\nof crumbs.
\nCatching my legs, wanting
\nme now.<\/p>\n