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At the Sociology Conference<\/strong><\/p>\n She told us that even basic research For example<\/em>, she said – I\u2019ve lost a daughter<\/em>, she said, At that point, she sat down, I registered the thought as sad; At that point, I\u2019d never lost any daughters. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/b>Claire Walker<\/strong>‘s poetry has appeared in magazines, anthologies and webzines. She is a Reader for Three Drops Press and Co-Editor of Atrium poetry webzine. Her latest pamphlet, Somewhere Between Rose and Black<\/em>, was published by V. Press in December 2017.\u00a0Twitter: @ClaireWpoetry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At the Sociology Conference She told us that even basic research questions can be hard. For example, she said – paused to pour a glass of water, time enough to gather her words \u2013 how many children have you got? I\u2019ve lost a daughter, she said, so how would I answer that? At that […]<\/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-16289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289","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=16289"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16602,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16289\/revisions\/16602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nquestions can be hard.<\/p>\n
\npaused to pour
\na glass of water, time enough
\nto gather her words \u2013
\nhow many children have you got<\/em>?<\/p>\n
\nso how would I answer that<\/em>?<\/p>\n
\nrested her head back as if the ceiling
\nmight know which category to tick.<\/p>\n
\nstored it away as a piece of someone else\u2019s life,
\nbut at that point, I had never been pregnant
\nand was probably looking ahead,
\nwondering what would be for lunch.<\/p>\n
\nAt that point, I had all the answers to give.<\/p>\n