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Daedalus After Knossos<\/strong><\/p>\n The maze is now a seashell\u2019s as if sun-touching ambitions the minutiae of mourning <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jonathan Taylor<\/strong>‘s books include the\u00a0novel Melissa <\/em>(Salt 2015), the memoir Take Me Home <\/em>(Granta, 2007), and the poetry collection Musicolepsy <\/em> (Shoestring, 2013). He directs the MA in Creative Writing at the University of Leicester. He lives in Leicestershire with his wife, the poet, Maria Taylor, and their twin daughters, Miranda and Rosalind. His website is www.jonathanptaylor.co.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Following the death of his son, Daedalus settled in Sicily. He was discovered there by King Minos when he was asked to solve a riddle: how to thread a spiral seashell. To do this, he tied a piece of string round an ant, and lured the ant through the shell by placing honey at the other end. <\/em> Daedalus After Knossos The maze is now a seashell\u2019s spiral threaded by an ant, a miniature Ariadne searching for honey, as if sun-touching ambitions are drowned in an ocean and grief has compacted Daedalian ingenuity to an ever-diminishing point, the minutiae of mourning over three thousand years reaching sub-atomic level, a labyrinth of […]<\/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-14713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713","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=14713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14714,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14713\/revisions\/14714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nspiral threaded by an ant,
\na miniature Ariadne
\nsearching for honey,<\/p>\n
\nare drowned in an ocean
\nand grief has compacted
\nDaedalian ingenuity
\nto an ever-diminishing point,<\/p>\n
\nover three thousand years
\nreaching sub-atomic level,
\na labyrinth of quantums
\nin which you are finally lost
\nand all of us are threadless.<\/p>\n
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