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Aunt Vera and Uncle\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Half a picture, half a story. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alarie Tennille<\/strong> (Kansas City, Missouri) is the author of Running Counterclockwise (2014) and Waking on the Moon (2017). She\u2019s spent half her life by the sea and the other half missing it. She hopes you\u2019ll visit her at alariepoet.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Aunt Vera and Uncle\u2026 Half a picture, half a story. I didn\u2019t know my uncle\u2019s face or even his name \u2013 he was Vera\u2019s Mistake, Vera\u2019s Good for Nothing, the mysterious Him of family legend. And though I often wanted to snip my brother out of family photos, I was made to […]<\/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-16675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675","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=16675"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16676,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16675\/revisions\/16676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI didn\u2019t know my uncle\u2019s face
\nor even his name \u2013
\nhe was Vera\u2019s Mistake,
\nVera\u2019s Good for Nothing,
\nthe mysterious Him of family legend.
\nAnd though I often wanted
\nto snip my brother
\nout of family photos,
\nI was made to understand
\nthat no wrong,
\nno amount of ornery meanness
\nwould ever equal
\nwhat this uncle by marriage
\nhad done to us all.<\/p>\n