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When I Heard The Trees Speak<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I turned to see your face<\/p>\n and it was still.<\/p>\n So, to be certain, I took<\/p>\n your hand and whispered,<\/p>\n \u2018Do you hear that?\u2019<\/p>\n Blankly, you answered, \u2018What?\u2019,<\/p>\n finding in the daily sounds of these woods \u2013<\/p>\n the wind among high branches,<\/p>\n crushed leaves beneath our feet \u2013<\/p>\n nothing worth noticing or speaking of.<\/p>\n I stood there, silent,<\/p>\n and my heart leapt hard<\/p>\n under my ribs, rushing my blood about.<\/p>\n I touched my fingers to the closest bark<\/p>\n and felt, below the crust,<\/p>\n the tendons shift, the tongue<\/p>\n rising and falling with the words.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kitty Coles<\/strong>‘ poems have been widely published in magazines and anthologies.\u00a0 She was one of the two winners of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize 2016 and her debut pamphlet, Seal Wife<\/em>, was published in 2017.\u00a0 www.kittyrcoles.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When I Heard The Trees Speak I turned to see your face and it was still. So, to be certain, I took your hand and whispered, \u2018Do you hear that?\u2019 Blankly, you answered, \u2018What?\u2019, finding in the daily sounds of these woods \u2013 the wind among high branches, crushed leaves beneath […]<\/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-15921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921","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=15921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16116,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15921\/revisions\/16116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}