<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Questions you won\u2019t answer about mending your roof<\/strong><\/p>\n Do you scrinch your eyes Your shoulders are braced against the wind. Do you slide your tongue over your lip As you scrape a layer on your hand Behind this shell which won\u2019t wash away Do you pray for your bed to be warm, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lydia Harris<\/strong> has made her home in the Orkney island of Westray. In 2017 she received a New Writers\u2019 Award for poetry from the Scottish Book Trust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Questions you won\u2019t answer about mending your roof Do you scrinch your eyes to the stone as you straddle the spine? Do you look away as you finger the gaps between flags? Your shoulders are braced against the wind. I know that. Do you slide your tongue over your lip as you […]<\/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-16741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741","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=16741"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17242,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16741\/revisions\/17242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto the stone as you straddle the spine?
\nDo you look away as you finger the gaps
\nbetween flags?<\/p>\n
\nI know that.<\/p>\n
\nas you stir lime and sand?
\nAs you slice and slap?<\/p>\n
\nto feel if it dries without a crack?<\/p>\n
\ndo you sing? Do you hum as you cover
\na patch of stone with your palm?<\/p>\n
\nfor no buckets or pails anymore in your home?<\/p>\n