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Blake Draws The Ghost of a Flea<\/strong><\/p>\n Blake says the flea complains of a haunting. From the darkness of the mahogany board, Not a pinprick creature that could be crushed under the thumb,<\/p>\n but a figure pulvinated with muscle, it is stocky as an ox, pugnacious , The flea\u2019s ghost has insect eyes, piercing and hard, The ghost in the flea laps at a small bowl awash with red.<\/p>\n The ghost of man cannot inhabit a horse Imagine the troughs of blood needed Anna\u00a0Saunders<\/strong>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0Communion<\/em>,\u00a0(Wild Conversations Press),\u00a0Struck<\/em>,\u00a0(Pindrop Press)\u00a0Kissing the She Bear,<\/em>\u00a0(Wild Conversations Press<\/em>),\u00a0Burne Jones and the Fox<\/em>\u00a0( Indigo Dreams) and the forthcoming\u00a0Ghosting for Beginners\u00a0<\/em>( Indigo Dreams, Spring 2018). \u00a0<\/em>Anna\u00a0is the CEO and founder of Cheltenham Poetry Festival. \u00a0She has been described as\u00a0\u2018<\/em>a poet who surely can do anything\u2019\u00a0<\/em>by\u00a0The North<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0\u2018<\/em>a poet of quite remarkable gifts\u2019<\/em>\u00a0by\u00a0Bernard O\u2019Donoghue.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After Williams Blake\u2019s Painting The Ghost of a Flea \u2013 which depicts a monstrous man,\u00a0 the spirit of whom, is trapped within an insect.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Blake Draws The Ghost of a Flea Blake says the flea complains of a haunting. He says he will draw the ghost within the flea. From the darkness of the mahogany board, Blake exhumes a body. Not a pinprick creature that could be crushed under the thumb, but a figure pulvinated with […]<\/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-16430","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\/16430","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=16430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16779,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16430\/revisions\/16779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe says he will draw the ghost within the flea.<\/p>\n
\nBlake exhumes a body.<\/p>\n
\na self- vaunting bruiser
\nstanding between two curtain as if on stage.<\/p>\n
\nposed menacingly under\u00a0 the starry heavens
\nof Blake\u2019s gold brush.<\/p>\n
\na reptilian tongue
\nencased in a herculean form.<\/p>\n
\nBlake tells the critics.<\/p>\n
\nto slake our avid thirst.
\n <\/p>\n