{"id":1647,"date":"2009-03-30T17:24:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2009-03-30T17:24:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T17:24:38","slug":"two-prose-poems-by-katrina-naomi-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/two-prose-poems-by-katrina-naomi-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Two prose poems by Katrina Naomi"},"content":{"rendered":"


For A<\/span>

A wasn\u2019t one of the first, just one of the first to speak. A couldn\u2019t say all of the words. I wasn\u2019t a judge, A wouldn\u2019t have one of those, but I believed the parts of A\u2019s story she would allow. Permission is uppermost. Her country is R, this doesn\u2019t really matter. What matters is that it happened to her. A told me. I wrote it down. A\u2019s eyes were wet, A kept telling what she could. One of the soldiers used his rifle. This is happening, still.<\/span>


~ ~ ~ ~ ~ <\/span>


Elephant Facts<\/span>

An elephant\u2019s trunk has the greatest sensitivity, the greatest flexibility. I have seen an elephant pick up threads of silk with its trunk, swoon with the scent. Threads from a young girl\u2019s sari, scarlet they were, like her welts after the last beating from her father. Her father was well known, the chief of mahouts.<\/span>

Three weeks later, that same elephant threw the chief of mahouts, calmly trod on each of his fingers. Scarlet.<\/span>


* Katrina Naomi's pamphlet <\/span>Lunch at the Elephant & Castle<\/span> (2008) is available from Templar Poetry – <\/span>www.templarpoetry.co.uk<\/a> – and she is working on a first full length collection due to be published by Templar Poetry in October.<\/span>

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For AA wasn\u2019t one of the first, just one of the first to speak. A couldn\u2019t say all of the words. I wasn\u2019t a judge, A wouldn\u2019t have one of those, but I believed the parts of A\u2019s story she would allow. Permission is uppermost. Her country is R, this doesn\u2019t really matter. What matters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-1647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}