{"id":12995,"date":"2017-01-06T15:38:03","date_gmt":"2017-01-06T15:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=12995"},"modified":"2020-12-09T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T15:06:50","slug":"elisabeth-sennitt-clough-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/elisabeth-sennitt-clough-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Elisabeth Sennitt Clough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Homewrecker and His Pun<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She has high hopes for her white sauce<br \/>\nthis Christmas. The roux glistens<br \/>\nfrom the wash and slap of milk,<br \/>\nas she lightens it a ladle at a time.<\/p>\n<p>Her veins grow taut on her forearm<br \/>\nas she beats the buttery yellow mixture.<br \/>\nDroplets hit her skin and form small crusts<br \/>\namong archipelagos of freckles.<\/p>\n<p>She\u2019s positioned her radio by the stove<br \/>\nand between songs, the cartoon<br \/>\nher daughter\u2019s watching in the living room<br \/>\ncompetes with the early morning announcer:<\/p>\n<p>on the first Christmas Day, the angels<br \/>\npromised peace and good will on Earth.<br \/>\nShe downs another sherry, her hand<br \/>\nless steady on the wooden spoon.<\/p>\n<p>Her husband comes in, flushed from his walk,<br \/>\na sprig of mistletoe tucked in his cap.<br \/>\nThough his affair happened last Christmas,<br \/>\nher eyes stiffen: you whore of a man.<\/p>\n<p>He blames the drink for shifting her<br \/>\ninto the sickness of every woman<br \/>\nhe wants to leave behind. She doesn\u2019t make it<br \/>\nto dinner and their child is left to wonder why<\/p>\n<p>when she\u2019s seen the b\u00e9chamel burnt to flakes<br \/>\nin the pan, her father tells her don\u2019t go<br \/>\nin the bathroom because your mother\u2019s been<br \/>\nat the sauce and hurled it all over the floor.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Elisabeth Sennitt Clough<\/strong> was born in Ely and now lives in Norfolk with her husband and three children. Her pamphlet <em>Glass<\/em> was a winner in the Paper Swans inaugural pamphlet competition and her debut collection, <em>Sightings<\/em>, is forthcoming from Pindrop Press. Her poems have appeared in <em>The Rialto, Mslexia, Magma, Stand, I,S&amp;T,<\/em> and<em> The Cannons\u2019 Mouth<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elisabethsennittclough.co.uk\/\">www.elisabethsennittclough.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Homewrecker and His Pun She has high hopes for her white sauce this Christmas. The roux glistens from the wash and slap of milk, as she lightens it a ladle at a time. Her veins grow taut on her forearm as she beats the buttery yellow mixture. Droplets hit her skin and form small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[135],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2016-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12995"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12996,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12995\/revisions\/12996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}