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The naming of things<\/strong><\/p>\n You have swallowed a planet Have heard it atom along, There are moments I fear I sometimes picture an eclipse, A letter has never known These letters, in this order, Aurora.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Patrick Hollowa<\/strong>y’s story ‘Laughing and Turning Away’ took second place in the Raymond Carver short story contest and was published by Carve. He was the winner of Headstuff’s Poem of the Year 2018. He was also shortlisted for the Dermot Healy Poetry Prize, Over the Edge New Writer award and The Bath Short Story Award. His stories and poems have been published by Overland, Poetry Ireland Review, Papercuts, The Illanot Review, The Stinging Fly,<\/em> among others. He has recently completed his first novel. His greatest achievement is his baby girl, Aurora.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The naming of things You have swallowed a planet & I have been witness To its swelling & swirling, Have felt it orbit Beneath my hand, Have seen its gravity Pull you from bed To the toilet & back again. Have heard it atom along, Tap dancing a private rite. It has […]<\/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-17783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783","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=17783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17853,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17783\/revisions\/17853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n& I have been witness
\nTo its swelling & swirling,
\nHave felt it orbit
\nBeneath my hand,
\nHave seen its gravity
\nPull you from bed
\nTo the toilet
\n& back again.<\/p>\n
\nTap dancing a private rite.
\nIt has woken you which has
\nWoken me & in those milky
\nMoonlight hours it grows
\nBetween us, the simplest
\nOf silences solars in your eyes.<\/p>\n
\nI will not know how to breathe,
\nThat gravity will no longer exist
\n& I will float aimlessly forever.<\/p>\n
\nAn explosion, the big bang
\nAll over again.<\/p>\n
\nSuch weight.<\/p>\n
\nHave never looked so perfect.<\/p>\n