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After<\/strong><\/p>\n A strange kind of derailed calm holds sway After your call, crying into the mobile, After picking up the tab \u2013 rather less mignon \u2013 the Circus Maximus to watch tourist <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Aidan Fadden<\/strong> has published poems in various magazines, including The North, Magma, Stand<\/em>, and in Cordite<\/em> (Australia) as well as in translation in Italian journals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After A strange kind of derailed calm holds sway after the worst weekend when we got the thumbs down after raising hopes of a child. After your call, crying into the mobile, after the miserly portions for lunch in the first rip-off place we could find. After picking up the tab \u2013 […]<\/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-14797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797","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=14797"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15155,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14797\/revisions\/15155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nafter the worst weekend
\nwhen we got the thumbs down
\nafter raising hopes of a child.<\/p>\n
\nafter the miserly portions
\nfor lunch
\nin the first rip-off place we could find.<\/p>\n
\nand the two hours spent talking
\nto come to terms with there being
\nnothing now inside. After stopping at<\/p>\n
\nkids playing at charioteers until
\ntheir whinnying white-horses had tired.
\nAfter they gave each other piggy-back rides.<\/p>\n