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Snapped<\/strong><\/p>\n Like the ulna cracked by a boy from a tree The frantic flowers of the Persian rugs My face gave away not the faintest clues of mountain trails I\u2019d mend my mind For four dark years every box was checked Lightning fast but loathe to mend <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Audrey Molloy<\/strong> was born in Ireland and spent her formative years in rural Wexford. Itchy feet led her to Sydney, where she works as a medical writer and editor. Her work has recently appeared in Australian Poetry Journal, The Galway Review<\/em>, and is upcoming in Orbis<\/em>. She was short-listed for the Over The Edge New Writer of the Year 2016. www.audreymolloy.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Snapped Like the ulna cracked by a boy from a tree or a wishbone pulled between two thumbs I snapped my mind at half past three The frantic flowers of the Persian rugs spliced my brain with their greens and blues like a wishbone pulled between two thumbs My face gave away not the […]<\/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-13664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664","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=13664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13986,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13664\/revisions\/13986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nor a wishbone pulled between two thumbs
\nI snapped my mind at half past three<\/p>\n
\nspliced my brain with their greens and blues
\nlike a wishbone pulled between two thumbs<\/p>\n
\nand nobody knew those buds entwined
\nhad spliced my brain. With greens and blues<\/p>\n
\nas shrinks and pills had nil effect
\nand nobody knew of the buds entwined<\/p>\n
\nbut my wits still flapped at my tether\u2019s end
\nfor shrinks and pills had nil effect<\/p>\n
\nlike the ulna cracked by a boy from a tree
\nmy wits ripped off at my tether\u2019s end
\nI snapped my mind at half past three.<\/p>\n