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Magic Hand<\/strong><\/p>\n The mind is a box of tricks. Or a bunch plucked from nothing hangs a dove from his fingers, The one where you swallow razor blades, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jane Burn<\/strong>‘s poems have been featured in magazines such as The Rialto, Under The Radar, Butcher’s Dog, Iota Poetry,<\/em> as well as anthologies from the Emma Press.\u00a0Her first collection,\u00a0nothing more to it than bubbles<\/em>,\u00a0has been published by Indigo Dreams. She also established the poetry site The Fat Damse<\/em>l.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Magic Hand The mind is a box of tricks. Fooled by his play of hide-the-rabbit, it tells you there is an ace up that sleeve. Or a bunch plucked from nothing into a burst of sham finery. He saws you in half while you smile, hangs a dove from his fingers, closes 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-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","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=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14543,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions\/14543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFooled by his play of hide-the-rabbit,
\nit tells you there is an ace up that sleeve.<\/p>\n
\ninto a burst of sham finery.
\nHe saws you in half while you smile,<\/p>\n
\ncloses the velvet curtain.
\nYou save the best illusion for last.<\/p>\n
\none by one on a piece of string,
\nthen spit them back up.<\/p>\n