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Ten Kinds of Haunting<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hand over hand clambering the hours <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A.J. Akoto<\/strong> is an English graduate and current fine art student living in London. Her poem \u2018Bite\u2019 was recently published in the Arachne Press anthology Shortest Day, Longest Night.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ten Kinds of Haunting 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hand over hand clambering the hours 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Voices in full rustle, scraping the shadow 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dying hour between one day and the next peopled by the dead, a nightly microcosm of Halloween 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roll call. 1: \u2018Present.\u2019 2: \u2018Present.\u2019 3: \u2018Present.\u2019 4: \u2018Present.\u2019 5:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5. 5? […]<\/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-14556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556","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=14556"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14558,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14556\/revisions\/14558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Voices in full rustle, scraping the shadow
\n3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The dying hour between one day and the next peopled by the dead, a nightly microcosm of Halloween
\n4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Roll call. 1: \u2018Present.\u2019 2: \u2018Present.\u2019 3: \u2018Present.\u2019 4: \u2018Present.\u2019 5:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5. 5? What, no more than a few ghosts tonight?
\n5.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018Who the hell are you?\u2019
\n\u2018I\u2019m not here to dictate terms. Whoever you think I am. No more, no less.\u2019
\n\u2018What sort of shit is that? As if it\u2019s up to me.\u2019
\n\u2018Well I\u2019m not here off my own bat.\u2019
\n\u2018So if I want you to go away?\u2019
\n\u2018That\u2019s up to you. But trust me, I wouldn\u2019t be here if you hadn\u2019t dreamt me up. I\u2019d have picked nicer scenery, a better brain.\u2019
\n\u2018Fuck off.\u2019
\n\u2018Okay.\u2019
\n6.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u2018What the hell? I thought you\u2019d gone.\u2019
\n\u2018Nope. Now, where were we?\u2019
\n7.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In your head you\u2019re running. If your muscles weren\u2019t suspended you\u2019d run into a wall, at best. At worst, out \u2013
\n8.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Clinking in the wall, winding down like a clock
\n9.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Ticktickticktick tick\u00a0 tick\u00a0\u00a0 tick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tick\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 tick
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