<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Home Truths<\/strong><\/p>\n Here are the woods, managed by a skilled crew, Here are the characters: the magpies check out Here, as if it mattered, the groceries listed And the house in the woods, like a scene of crime <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peter Daniels<\/strong> has two collections, Counting Eggs<\/em> <\/a>(Mulfran, 2012) and A Season in Eden <\/a><\/em>(Gatehouse, 2016). His translations of Khodasevich from Russian (Angel Classics, 2013) were shortlisted for three awards. He has also written the obscene Ballad of Captain Rigby.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Home Truths Here are the woods, managed by a skilled crew, and one good straight birch picked out with a red stripe \u2014 is it condemned or chosen? Here are the characters: the magpies check out glitter for the nest, the crows fidget in the wind, jays drop in like big pink […]<\/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":[137,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2018-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643","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=17643"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17644,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17643\/revisions\/17644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand one good straight birch picked out
\nwith a red stripe \u2014 is it condemned or chosen?<\/p>\n
\nglitter for the nest, the crows fidget in the wind,
\njays drop in like big pink toys on a visit.<\/p>\n
\nand followed round the dull little supermarket,
\nevery one crossed off, glad to be of service.<\/p>\n
\nas usual. You have to find things like soap,
\nand gold, and logs for the stove, but it\u2019s home.<\/p>\n