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Your Road<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s funny<\/p>\n When you get to know a road<\/p>\n So well\u2013<\/p>\n Your road.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You know<\/p>\n Without looking up<\/p>\n When the green light<\/p>\n Is giving you the nod.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You know<\/p>\n To speed up<\/p>\n Past the house with the dog<\/p>\n Who chases cars.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You know<\/p>\n The semi-tone leap<\/p>\n Over the hump-backed bridge<\/p>\n And the dance the bushes do<\/p>\n When there\u2019s a truck<\/p>\n Around the corner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You know<\/p>\n The house with all the cats<\/p>\n In the window<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And all year round<\/p>\n You slow down to watch the sheep<\/p>\n And then their lambs<\/p>\n And then they\u2019re sheep again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Niamh Twomey<\/strong> is a young Irish writer and student of English and French\u00a0in University College Cork.\u00a0 After winning the Hotpress Write Here Write\u00a0Now<\/em> \u00a0competition in 2016, her work has been published in Hotpress\u00a0Magazine<\/em>, Quarryman<\/em>, Flight Writing<\/em>, and Quill &\u00a0Parchment<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Your Road \u00a0 It\u2019s funny When you get to know a road So well\u2013 Your road. You know Without looking up When the green light Is giving you the nod. You know To speed up Past the house with the dog Who chases cars. You know The semi-tone leap […]<\/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-15867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867","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=15867"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15868,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15867\/revisions\/15868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}