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Sonatina<\/strong> Some days began with an offshore wind, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Oliver Comins<\/strong> lives and works in West London.\u00a0 Templar Poetry is publishing his first full length collection in 2018.\u00a0 Oak Fish Island<\/em> includes poems written in the late 20th<\/sup> century as well as more recent work. Twitter: @OJComins<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sonatina \u00a0 Of all the years we\u2019ve been living here this has been the longest and the shortest. How often did we hear the moon drag an ocean through itself and a riptide swallow those several billion particles of sand? Some days began with an offshore wind, the plaintive somnolence of a muted […]<\/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-16630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630","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=16630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16632,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16630\/revisions\/16632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n \u00a0<\/strong>
\nOf all the years we\u2019ve been living here
\nthis has been the longest and the shortest.
\nHow often did we hear the moon drag
\nan ocean through itself and a riptide swallow
\nthose several billion particles of sand?<\/p>\n
\nthe plaintive somnolence of a muted cello.
\nIf rigging moaned, tacking into haven,
\nwater would not let us pass or travel back.<\/p>\n