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House Share<\/strong><\/p>\n Mice make themselves as thin as envelopes to fit under your doors. I am amused, until a mother mouse drags her deformed infant to the middle of the room. Bald, rosy, twitching on the floor. I stop next-door\u2019s cat from hooking it away. How small should creatures be to die ignored? What is the cut-off point in size? I\u2019d like to know if there\u2019s no need to cry.\u00a0 That dormitory of ladybirds who sleep behind the blinds, dream on. False widow spiders tweak their sheets of silk. A white wave moth flickers on the sill. You have the strangest definition of living by yourself. House Share Mice make themselves as thin as envelopes to fit under your doors. I am amused, until a mother mouse drags her deformed infant to the middle of the room. Bald, rosy, twitching on the floor. I stop next-door\u2019s cat from hooking it away. How small should creatures be to die […]<\/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-13683","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\/13683","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=13683"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14303,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13683\/revisions\/14303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\nAnna-May Laugher<\/strong> is a prize winning poet. Her work has been widely anthologised. Titles include Poetry and all that Jazz, Three Drops from a Cauldron<\/em> and Sophie Hannah\u2019s The Poetry of Sex<\/em>. Online her poems have been featured on Amaryllis; And Other Poems; <\/em>and Ink, Sweat and Tears.<\/em> She has written for the Reading Museum Project \u2018A Sense of Place\u2019 and for \u2018From Palette to Pen\u2019 for the Holburne Museum in Bath. Her first pamphlet is published by new press Luminous Road<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"