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Care<\/strong><\/p>\n Dark red, dark green; A white van arrives; The whistling\u2026 Whistling man, closer now; Afterwards, the old man wipes Dark red, dark green; <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael McGill<\/strong> is an Edinburgh poet who has recently been published in Obsessed with Pipework, The High Window, Dream Catcher, The Transnational, Northwords Now, Glasgow Review of Books <\/em>and The Haiku Quarterly.<\/em> He has also performed his poetry on The Verb on BBC Radio 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Care Dark red, dark green; his jacket on a chair; the dog barks outside. A white van arrives; its tyres crack across gravel until silent. The whistling\u2026 \u201cGive this man his daily bread and give the dog a bone.\u201d Whistling man, closer now; and his strange scent, closer still – pepper, pepper. Afterwards, 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-13679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679","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=13679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13680,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13679\/revisions\/13680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nhis jacket on a chair;
\nthe dog barks outside.<\/p>\n
\nits tyres crack across gravel
\nuntil silent.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cGive this man his daily bread
\nand give the dog a bone.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nand his strange scent,
\ncloser still – pepper, pepper.<\/p>\n
\nhis mouth
\nand says, \u201cThank you.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nhis jacket on a chair;
\nthe dog barks outside.<\/p>\n