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This Year<\/strong><\/p>\n This year moss has grown <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ian Glass<\/strong> grew up in Northumberland and lives in Worcestershire.\u00a0 He trained as an engineer, works as a computer programmer and writes most of his poetry when he should be doing something else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This Year This year moss has grown on the cold side of our tree.\u00a0 It sits thick damp green at the roots but thins towards the plywood box I made; the box you requested, which I fixed with carpet tacks because I would not find screws. Weathered now and splitting, it will […]<\/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-14760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760","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=14760"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15111,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14760\/revisions\/15111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\non the cold side of our tree.\u00a0 It sits
\nthick damp green at the roots but
\nthins towards the plywood box I made;
\nthe box you requested,
\nwhich I fixed with carpet tacks
\nbecause I would not find screws.
\nWeathered now and splitting, it will not last
\nanother winter.
\nThe hole I drilled; cut; hammered in frustration,
\ntoo large for sparrows,
\nis dark,
\nadding its emptiness to all the others.<\/p>\n