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Word-Pact<\/strong><\/p>\n for Tammara Claire<\/i><\/p>\n Without your dark eyes and a settled chin even the whetting shrill of woodpeckers random footsteps haw the creaking floor the aplomb whiteness of a page on my table last time you filled it with your flaunting hands a compulsion to write all details I missed during of moments, we both chase them as if it our fate where the wind takes toll on the thin saplings words make windows from which I sight you <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rizwan Akhtar<\/strong>\u2019s debut collection of Poems\u00a0Lahore, I Am Coming<\/i>\u00a0(2017) is published by Punjab University Press. \u00a0 He works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of English, Punjab University, Lahore, Pakistan. He completed his PhD in postcolonial literature from the University of Essex, UK in 2013. He has published poems in well-established poetry magazines of the UK, US, India, Canada, and New Zealand. He was a part of the workshop on poetry with Derek Walcott at the University of Essex in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Word-Pact for Tammara Claire Without your dark eyes and a settled chin the evening is too unstable and shaky even the whetting shrill of woodpeckers is dulled wanting a harder crust for bills random footsteps haw the creaking floor voices poach on my silence housed in the aplomb whiteness of 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-17019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019","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=17019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17032,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17019\/revisions\/17032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe evening is too unstable and shaky<\/p>\n
\nis dulled wanting a harder crust for bills<\/p>\n
\nvoices poach on my silence housed in<\/p>\n
\npaling in your absence, unwrinkled for months<\/p>\n
\nsince then what was considered a fantasy is now<\/p>\n
\nan argument over who is going to keep record<\/p>\n
\nto follow time squandering in the lawn outside<\/p>\n
\nwatching their demise at the end of veranda<\/p>\n
\nrunning away with the vocabulary we agreed
\nbreaching trust and dying like a language.<\/p>\n