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Speed Indication Device <\/strong><\/p>\n I hurry to town, call Hello!<\/em> \u00a0to the one wave to toddlers in the park \u2013 a shortcut glance at that cottage I\u2019m glad to not own \u2013 and at 6th-formers who amble, SLOW DOWN \u2013 30 \u2013 flashes red at a car. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lesley Burts<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has appeared in magazines and anthologies, including: Tears in the Fence, The Interpreter\u2019s House, Sarasvati, Reach, Prole<\/em> and The Butchers Dog <\/em>and Sentinel Literary Quarterly Oct-Dec 2016; <\/em>also online, e.g. in Poetry Kit, Long Exposure and Strange Poetry.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Speed Indication Device I hurry to town, call Hello! \u00a0to the one whose hair is pinned\u00a0 in a bun, and sings alto in the Community Choir; wave to toddlers in the park \u2013 a shortcut from my school at playtimes when I was allowed to run to the library; glance at that cottage […]<\/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-13675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675","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=13675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14031,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13675\/revisions\/14031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhose hair is pinned\u00a0 in a bun,
\nand sings alto in the Community Choir;<\/p>\n
\nfrom my school at playtimes when
\nI was allowed to run to the library;<\/p>\n
\npink cob walls renovated last summer,
\nstained again by weeks of rain \u2013<\/p>\n
\nfill the path, link arms then mouths
\nunder the horse-chestnut\u2019s early blossom.<\/p>\n
\nI stop at this moment
\nof clouds and catkins and white hair.<\/p>\n