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Housewife<\/em><\/strong> Offered a mending kit A hussy.<\/p>\n She stabbed pins and needles As he swung down the road on his bike but she had a pile of frayed cuffs to hem, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hannah Stone<\/strong> has two collections, Lodestone<\/em> (2016) and Missing Miles<\/em> (2017). She convenes the poets\/composers forum for Leeds Lieder festival and comperes the monthly open mic Wordspace event in Horsforth. Housewife \u00a0 (\u2018noun. (2) A small case for needles, thread and other small sewing items\u2019) \u00a0 The day he cut free she watched him pack his panniers with essentials. Offered a mending kit to sew on the buttons in his new life. A housewife, a hussif. A hussy. She stabbed pins and […]<\/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-17785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785","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=17785"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17855,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17785\/revisions\/17855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\n(\u2018noun. (2) A small case for needles, thread and other small sewing items\u2019)
\n\u00a0<\/em>
\nThe day he cut free
\nshe watched him pack his panniers
\nwith essentials.<\/p>\n
\nto sew on the buttons in his new life.
\nA housewife, a hussif.<\/p>\n
\ninto a scrap of fabric,
\nspooled threads in a figure of eight.<\/p>\n
\nshe wondered if he had a puncture kit
\nto patch up his dreams,<\/p>\n
\nand it takes all your concentration
\nto keep the button holes neat.<\/p>\n
\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"