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Grassy Beach evening<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stalk between rails and the Tay <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Beth McDonough<\/strong>\u2019s poetry appears in Agenda, <\/em>Causeway<\/em>, <\/em>Interpreter\u2019s House<\/em>and elsewhere; she reviews in DURA<\/em>. Handfast<\/em> (2016, with Ruth Aylett) explores family experiences \u2013 Aylett\u2019s of dementia. and McDonough\u2019s of autism. She was recently Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grassy Beach evening Stalk between rails and the Tay where light stakes out any primped queen\u2019s lace \u2013 which might be jumped-up hedge parsley. Touch columbine in scattered couch, rip yellow vetch, unbutton tansies. You\u2019ll only hear high tide\u2019s undercut slap at concrete, slurp up steps. Smell dog roses by the […]<\/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-17022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022","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=17022"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17307,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17022\/revisions\/17307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhere light stakes out
\nany primped queen\u2019s lace \u2013
\nwhich might be jumped-up hedge parsley.
\nTouch columbine in scattered couch,
\nrip yellow vetch, unbutton tansies.
\nYou\u2019ll only hear high tide\u2019s undercut
\nslap at concrete, slurp up steps.
\nSmell dog roses by the end of whins.
\nCan you remember feral apples
\nsnapped round corners?
\nYour familiar frames the half-dark
\nslinks into almost possible.<\/p>\n