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Gargoyles<\/strong><\/p>\n When their hearts and bodies\u00a0ached, More cloister bat than angel, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Katerina Neocleous<\/strong> is a\u00a0full time mother and home educator. She has had poems published in various poetry magazines, most recently in Obsessed With Pipework<\/em> and Clear Poetr<\/em>y. She is based in North West England.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gargoyles When their hearts and bodies\u00a0ached, they imagined beings able to transcend\u00a0toil only\u00a0love made\u00a0tolerable; and\u00a0the hurt embryonic wings unfurling from sore shoulders reluctantly, like new Horse Chestnut leaves. More cloister bat than angel, these dumb creatures summoned in torment can\u2019t offer hope or salvation, but they\u2019ll sit with you all day though you […]<\/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-14438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438","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=14438"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14440,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14438\/revisions\/14440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthey imagined beings able
\nto transcend\u00a0toil only\u00a0love
\nmade\u00a0tolerable; and\u00a0the hurt
\nembryonic wings unfurling
\nfrom sore shoulders reluctantly,
\nlike new Horse Chestnut leaves.<\/p>\n
\nthese dumb creatures
\nsummoned in torment
\ncan\u2019t offer hope or salvation,
\nbut they\u2019ll sit with you all day
\nthough you refuse their succour:
\nuntil you\u2019re less lonely than them.<\/p>\n