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Esperanza the Relief Sculptress<\/strong><\/p>\n Shearing the copper sheet to match the length and width into view, quick to brush bright shavings from the writhing cement to warp the figures into stasis. Gummed to a plank, After rallying from the fumes she strikes a mallet, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christina Lloyd<\/strong> is pursuing a PhD in creative writing through Lancaster University. Her work appears in various journals, including Canadian Woman Studies\/les cahiers de la femme<\/em> and The North<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Esperanza the Relief Sculptress Shearing the copper sheet to match the length and width of the tracing paper, she starts to rouse Lapu-Lapu\u2019s warriors to slay Magellan. Wielding a burin, she etches every sinew into view, quick to brush bright shavings from the writhing scene. She grooves the copper with a tongue […]<\/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-14793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793","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=14793"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14796,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14793\/revisions\/14796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof the tracing paper, she starts to rouse Lapu-Lapu\u2019s warriors
\nto slay Magellan. Wielding a burin, she etches every sinew<\/p>\n
\nscene. She grooves the copper with a tongue depressor\u2014
\nbulked up arms and legs are what she\u2019s after before pouring<\/p>\n
\nher burnished work lies at the ready: she douses bodies
\nwith liver of sulphur to bring out each fold of flesh.<\/p>\n
\nhand-hammering negative space into the pitch of gongs.
\nEach blow stirs her men to a war dance.<\/p>\n