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Six Balloons<\/b>
\n\u00a0<\/b>
\nThey came from the east. Flattened rounds,
\ntambourines, but pawn black,
\nsilver streamers trailing from their valves,
\nlollipops, against cloud<\/p>\n
sheen, six came like fighters,
\nwere five, climbed, formed a V, a
\nLibra, W, Cassiopeia,
\nthen passed. I looked away, typed a<\/p>\n
note in the iPhone\u2019s commonplace book,
\nsomeone else filmed it on his,
\nour mediation mediated,
\nthe thing itself, there, looked<\/p>\n
at through another thing, and then
\nwhen I looked again all were gone
\nto Coulsdon Town or nowhere, along
\nwith each connotation I\u2019d witnessed in them<\/p>\n
or had endowed them with. I cursed,
\nwished I\u2019d stared harder, sucked
\nthem straight into brain through pupils. But
\nthat might\u2019ve proved them less, or worse.
\n <\/p>\n
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Six Balloons \u00a0 They came from the east. Flattened rounds, tambourines, but pawn black, silver streamers trailing from their valves, lollipops, against cloud sheen, six came like fighters, were five, climbed, formed a V, a Libra, W, Cassiopeia, then passed. I looked away, typed a note in the iPhone\u2019s commonplace book, someone […]<\/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-17146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146","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=17146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17372,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17146\/revisions\/17372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPaul Connolly<\/strong>\u2019s poetry has appeared in Agenda, Poetry Salzburg Review, The Warwick Review, The Reader, The Journal, Scintilla, Canada Quarterly, <\/em>and The Dawntreader<\/em>. He was shortlisted for the 2015 Bridport Prize and came third in the Magna Carta Poetry Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"