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The Long Swim<\/strong><\/p>\n The pool\u2019s pure Hockney \u2013 cool, Roses and walnuts spill from thorny burrs I\u2019d like to go on filling space like that. But there are lengths to kill <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sally Festing<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0Salaams<\/i>\u00a0was published by Happenstance;\u00a0Font\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Doors Opening<\/i>\u00a0(Oversteps) came out in 2015.\u00a0A\u00a0<\/span>fifth collection will be published next year.<\/span>\u00a0Her writings include\u00a0radio plays, nonfiction, journalism and\u00a0Penguin Biographies\u00a0(www.sallyfesting. The Long Swim The pool\u2019s pure Hockney \u2013 cool, sapphire & super-real. Virginia creeper blots the retaining wall. Roses and walnuts spill from thorny burrs and a great leaf-spattered tree. A cat stretches in the grass, tumbles into its fur, I\u2019d like to go on filling space like that. Be a butterfly. A […]<\/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-16749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749","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=16749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17262,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16749\/revisions\/17262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsapphire & super-real.
\nVirginia creeper blots the retaining wall.<\/p>\n
\nand a great leaf-spattered tree.
\nA cat stretches in the grass, tumbles into its fur,<\/p>\n
\nBe a butterfly. A bird.
\nAn acrobat.<\/p>\n
\nbetween one hard edge and the other
\nBack and forward, breaststroke, crawl.
\n <\/p>\n