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Resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n don\u2019t fly concepts my dog can\u2019t follow though sometimes so if I ring Jen so isn\u2019t it better <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Terry Quinn<\/strong> worked in the NHS as a Medical Engineer. His collection The Amen of Knowledge<\/em> won the Geoff Steven\u2019s Memorial Prize. His joint collection with Julie Maclean To Have to Follow<\/em> was published by Indigo Pamphlets in 2016.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Home for Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n Never sure whether it will be Midnight mass on Christmas Eve, On Christmas morning, a long pensive walk, and all the family <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mick Corrigan<\/strong> has been published in a range of periodicals, anthologies, magazines and on-line journals His first collection, Deep Fried Unicorn<\/em> was released in to the wild in 2014 by Rebel Poetry Ireland. His poem Snowbound<\/em> has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 2017\/2018 by San Pedro Review\/Blue Horse Press USA. He plans to do dangerous things with his hair before it\u2019s too late.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n New Year Resolution<\/strong><\/p>\n Once I dived headlong into-the-year But I became one who dips-a-toe in pewterwaves My new resolve is to gallop-ungainly <\/p>\n Dr Maggie Butt<\/strong> is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow, University\u00a0of Kent, Canterbury and Associate Professor Creative Writing,\u00a0Middlesex University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Resolution don\u2019t fly don\u2019t drive vacuum regularly concepts my dog can\u2019t follow because, well, she\u2019s a dog and I\u2019m human, capable of reason even, especially, after three pints on New Years\u2019 Eve though sometimes the harder the resolution the easier it is while merely thinking no more Lemon Drizzle has me twitching […]<\/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":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381","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=15381"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15535,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15381\/revisions\/15535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndon\u2019t drive
\nvacuum regularly<\/p>\n
\nbecause, well, she\u2019s a dog
\nand I\u2019m human, capable of reason
\neven, especially, after three pints
\non New Years\u2019 Eve<\/p>\n
\nthe harder the resolution
\nthe easier it is
\nwhile merely thinking
\nno more Lemon Drizzle
\nhas me twitching
\nby January the 2nd<\/p>\n
\nit will only be to ask
\nhow her garden is doing
\nwith all that snow in Scotland
\nand if she happens to ask
\ndid I enjoy my Christmas Cake
\n( I don\u2019t do marzipan and icing )
\nthen it would a lie
\nto say that I didn\u2019t
\nand if she says
\nshall I bake you another
\nit would be rude
\nwouldn\u2019t it<\/p>\n
\nto be truthful and nice
\nto be able to use reason
\nto change one\u2019s mind
\nto make someone happy
\neven if it does mean
\na saturated Lemon Storm
\nhopefully by the end of the week.<\/p>\n
\na warm welcome or a hot reception
\nfrom the ties that bind fiercely.
\nYour fellow eggs all tiger eyed,
\nforever fighting for the same breath,
\nsnug claustrophobics wing stretching
\nin to each other\u2019s face.<\/p>\n
\nbroadsides of boozey breath
\nand gritted teeth goodwill to all,
\nwith, of course, all the exceptions.<\/p>\n
\nthen back for your dinner, table groaning,<\/p>\n
\nwolf waiting.<\/p>\n
\nsure I\u2019d arrowcleanly into tropic water
\nas lithe boys off-the-cliffs at Acapulco,
\naware of jaggedrocks but rush-drunk
\ntwisting to swimhard to the surface,
\ngasp sweetscented air.<\/p>\n
\ntremulous-tentative, \u00a0with bluemottled legs,
\nthe chill Januarywind whippingup doubt,
\nstumbling on pebbles-underfoot.<\/p>\n
\ninto freezingwaves, hallooing-and-gasping
\nat the shock-of-ice.\u00a0 Laughing, readyforanything.
\n <\/p>\n