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The door sings its welcome<\/strong><\/p>\n it’s the kind of door and says come in leave your coat in the hall sit yourself down in the garden oak breezes play next door is grey too much slammed lost\u00a0\u00a0 or stolen\u00a0\u00a0 jobs but this door is a honeycomb don’t keep walking by don’t slow your step only knock only knock and the door <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Linda Rose Parkes<\/strong> was born in the Channel Islands and published her third collection Familiars<\/em><\/a>, with Hearing Eye in 2015. She is co-editor of Wavelengths<\/em><\/a>, an anthology of Channel Island Poetry, and is a painter and lyricist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The door sings its welcome it’s the kind of door that trickles honey in the light and says come in twice at least leave your coat in the hall the kettle’s singing sit yourself down here at the window in the garden oak a blackbird warbles breezes play among the cushions next door […]<\/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-14530","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\/14530","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=14530"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14992,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14530\/revisions\/14992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat trickles honey in the light<\/p>\n
\ntwice at least<\/p>\n
\nthe kettle’s singing<\/p>\n
\nhere at the window<\/p>\n
\na blackbird warbles<\/p>\n
\namong the cushions<\/p>\n
\nand cracked at the hinges<\/p>\n
\nyanked open<\/p>\n
\nhopes\u00a0 loves<\/p>\n
\na promise<\/p>\n
\nscarred with disappointment<\/p>\n
\nto rush silently on<\/p>\n
\nand step in out of the ruins<\/p>\n
\nwill swing gently wide.<\/p>\n