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Small Gods<\/strong><\/p>\n Impossibly gifted grown sad and old. Here, they say, here Martignac, Lot Valley 2016<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ian Dudley<\/strong> @dudlian has published poems in Aesthetica, The Dark Horse, The Interpreter\u2019s House, The North, <\/em>and Wasafiri<\/em>, and was featured in The Best New British And Irish Poets 2016<\/em> (Eyewear).\u00a0 www.ianmdudley.eu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Small Gods Impossibly gifted and unforgivable they are the gods we made in our need grown sad and old. Lonely among the living they worship us, bring heartbreaking offerings that cost them everything we cannot use. Here, they say, here are heaven and hell, eternal life\u2014and how can we refuse? Martignac, Lot […]<\/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-13729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729","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=13729"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14100,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13729\/revisions\/14100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand unforgivable
\nthey are the gods
\nwe made in our need<\/p>\n
\nLonely among the living
\nthey worship us, bring
\nheartbreaking offerings
\nthat cost them everything
\nwe cannot use.<\/p>\n
\nare heaven and hell,
\neternal life\u2014and
\nhow can we refuse?<\/p>\n