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Porosis<\/strong><\/p>\n Such a soggy word \u2013 skin that\u2019s oozing sores<\/p>\n or milk pouring and soaking a new carpet.<\/p>\n If you stick an \u2018a\u2019 in in the desert,<\/p>\n but, in bones, it means you have and now I am wondering<\/p>\n what will happen to me. Does that mean that, eventually,<\/p>\n my\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 entire\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 body\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 will\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 become <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Audrey McIlvain<\/strong> has published many educational articles, seven books for children, a self-help book for the elderly (60+? Get Ready to Rock<\/em><\/a>), and a first collection of poetry (Hold on a Minute<\/em><\/a>). She recently won the category she entered in the national competition, \u2018Whispers of War\u2019.\u00a0 In 2014 she began a Masters Degree (online) with Manchester Metropolitan University.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Porosis Such a soggy word \u2013 like dripping pipes, skin that\u2019s oozing sores or milk pouring from a cracked jug and soaking a new carpet. If you stick an \u2018a\u2019 in it\u2019s an oasis, watering you in the desert, but, in bones, it means you have larger than normal holes and now […]<\/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-12438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438","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=12438"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13214,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12438\/revisions\/13214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nlike dripping pipes,<\/p>\n
\nfrom a cracked jug<\/p>\n
\nit\u2019s an oasis, watering you<\/p>\n
\nlarger than normal holes<\/p>\n
\nYou see, I have small bones.<\/p>\n
\none\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 large\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 leaky\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 hole?<\/p>\n