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Five Compression Poems\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n – from special effects<\/em><\/p>\n one look at her face | her eyes *<\/p>\n known figures investigate memory serums line your shelves<\/p>\n the space you occupy now *<\/p>\n i survive identities *<\/p>\n body hungry i stumble about for a mouthful of her absence *<\/p>\n he spends days unearthing adjusting to observations of black cats <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Iain Britton<\/strong>‘s poems have recently been published, or are forthcoming in Molly Bloom, The Interpreter’s House, Long Poem Magazine, Stand, Clinic, Card Alpha, The Curly Mind, M58, The Literateur.<\/em> Since 2008, Iain has had five collections of poems published, mainly in the UK.\u00a0 A new collection photosynthesis<\/em> was published by Kilmog Press (NZ), 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Compression Poems\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 – from special effects one look at her face | her eyes her blue tattoos | she steps onto no man\u2019s land takes a deep breath & touches the hearts of last week\u2019s stripped & searched cosmic-brokers of dreams | she doesn\u2019t budge to the helmeted head of a […]<\/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-12579","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\/12579","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=12579"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12580,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12579\/revisions\/12580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nher blue tattoos |
\nshe steps onto no man\u2019s land
\ntakes a deep breath & touches the hearts
\nof last week\u2019s stripped & searched
\ncosmic-brokers of dreams | she doesn\u2019t budge
\nto the helmeted head of a childhood
\nfolded back into the earth<\/p>\n
\nthe open fields of your rooms
\ncounting their nights in the dark
\nputting words in mouths<\/p>\n
\nis furnished for a child<\/p>\n
\ndig the garden
\nstab at the birthing holes in plants
\n& you practise the ovarian experience
\nof green blood in your streams | your gullies |
\nin your lexicon of new bones<\/p>\n
\ni taste a raw consensual acquiescence | an unspoken sentence
\nis caught | manhandled |\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 as to her whereabouts
\nis a matter of interpreting calendars<\/span><\/p>\n
\nhoroscopes<\/p>\n
\nmad-eyed owls | a Judas sheep in the backyard
\ni\u2019m told at night he sleeps with toys<\/p>\n