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Their small day<\/strong><\/p>\n The trunk is carried down from the attic, After the truck dust clears The ceremony spot is tagged in black gaffer tape, The kitchen drain runs blood and onions. Rocks are washed to weight down the napkins. The USB backup in a labelled envelope The stage is swept. I promise this <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hannah Jane Walker <\/span><\/strong>is a writer and producer from Cambridge. She studied literature at the University of East Anglia and poetry at Newcastle University. With Chris Thorpe she had made four plays, two published by Oberon.\u00a0 She has written for The Guardian and BBC Radio 4 and is currently working on a solo show about sensitivity called \u2018Highly Sensitive\u2019, a collaboration with playwright Rachel Mariner called \u2018recovering misogynist\u2019, a dance circus collaboration and a children\u2019s book. Hannah\u2019s poetry has been published by Nasty Little Press and she has just finished her first full poetry collection \u2018Shark!\u2019 edited by Caroline Bird and Joe Dunthorne. She is an Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing<\/span>\u00a0 http:\/\/www.hannahjanewalker.co.uk\/?page_id=2<\/a><\/p>\n She is getting married this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Their small day The trunk is carried down from the attic, the dress beaten and hung out to bleach. After the truck dust clears 100 white plastic chairs are unstacked into a grin. The ceremony spot is tagged in black gaffer tape, out of Zip Lock primrose, marigold, geranium. The kitchen drain runs blood […]<\/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-16484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484","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=16484"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16591,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16484\/revisions\/16591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe dress beaten and hung out to bleach.<\/p>\n
\n100 white plastic chairs are unstacked into a grin.<\/p>\n
\nout of Zip Lock primrose, marigold, geranium.<\/p>\n
\nA small fridge for cold drinks cables from the balcony.<\/p>\n
\nWhite paper garlands shimmer building to building<\/p>\n
\nsellotaped to the underside of a speaker.<\/p>\n
\nShe washes her hair, plaits it, bracelets slip to her wrists:<\/p>\n
\nand this.<\/p>\n