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Blind<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eyelids still sewn, wild kitten rabbit<\/p>\n dip-hopped across our path:<\/p>\n where mum, what eat, who there.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the field, crow blew at a hankied beak,<\/p>\n crossed its legs, cawed bone<\/em><\/p>\n pretended to read the Gazette.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n We pondered rabbit\u2019s fate,<\/p>\n my reaching hands were stayed.<\/p>\n It\u2019s true. Not everything is saved<\/p>\n by taking it home.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Karen Hodgson Pryce<\/strong> lives in the Cairngorms area of Scotland. Her poetry has been published in Landfall<\/i>, an Anthology by New Voices Press, Butcher\u2019s Dog<\/i>, The Learned Pig<\/i>, The Poets\u2019 Republic<\/i>, Mslexia<\/i>, Open Mouse<\/i> and Ink, Sweat & Tears<\/i>. Her short story was Commended<\/i> in the <\/a>Neil Gunn Writing Competition 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blind Eyelids still sewn, wild kitten rabbit dip-hopped across our path: where mum, what eat, who there. In the field, crow blew at a hankied beak, crossed its legs, cawed bone pretended to read the Gazette. We pondered rabbit\u2019s fate, my reaching hands were stayed. It\u2019s true. Not everything […]<\/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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898","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=15898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15898\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}