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In my father\u2019s pocket<\/strong><\/p>\n Feel that square of paper \u201cThis is my father. He is loved. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Moray Sanders<\/strong> has written prose with the support of Creative Future for some years. Through Creative Future she won a mentoring opportunity with New Writing South. She is working with Vanessa Gebbie, who is encouraging her to write poetry. This was her first poem, and her first open submission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In my father\u2019s pocket Feel that square of paper in your jacket pocket next to your heart. Unfold it. Hold it out if you need to. \u201cThis is my father. He is loved, not lost. Please bring him home and when you have read this, put the paper back in his pocket […]<\/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":[136,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2017-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441","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=12441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12442,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12441\/revisions\/12442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin your jacket pocket
\nnext to your heart.
\nUnfold it.
\nHold it out if you need to.<\/p>\n
\nHe is loved,
\nnot lost.
\nPlease bring him home and
\nwhen you have read this,
\nput the paper back
\nin his pocket
\nwhere he can feel it
\nnext to his heart.<\/p>\n
\nNot lost.
\nThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n