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Dormitory Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n After lights out here they come The girl who claimed she saw The girl who went to Matron The girl who believed The girl who drew a moustache Then comes the one expelled to meet the caretaker\u2019s son. on the music room piano, keeping us The one who feared she\u2019d and was pregnant with a frog. the head prefect who heard voices <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennie Farley<\/strong> is a published poet, workshop leader and teacher. Her poetry has featured in magazines including New Welsh Review, Under the Radar, The Interpreter\u2019s House, Prole.\u00a0 My Grandmother Skating<\/i> (Indigo Dreams) her first collection was published in 2016. Her new collection Hex (IDP) <\/i>is due out 2018 .<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dormitory Ghosts After lights out here they come in unwieldy crocodile. The girl who claimed she saw God\u2019s face in a digestive biscuit. The girl who went to Matron suffering with stigmata. The girl who believed she was Mary Magdalen. The girl who drew a moustache in charcoal on the Virgin Mary. Then […]<\/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-16260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260","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=16260"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16523,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16260\/revisions\/16523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nin unwieldy crocodile.<\/p>\n
\nGod\u2019s face in a digestive biscuit.<\/p>\n
\nsuffering with stigmata.<\/p>\n
\nshe was Mary Magdalen.<\/p>\n
\nin charcoal on the Virgin Mary.<\/p>\n
\nfor climbing out of the window<\/p>\n
\nThe one who scratched the word penis<\/i><\/p>\n
\nin detention until she confessed.<\/p>\n
\nimmaculately conceived<\/p>\n
\nLast in line, everyone\u2019s heroine,<\/p>\n
\ntelling her to set fire to the school.<\/p>\n