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Mata Hari and the Jellyfish<\/strong><\/p>\n Time bends in the exam hall, Above, carved in oak, the names Time bends in the exam hall, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jane Salmons<\/strong> is a teacher from the Black Country.\u00a0 Currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing, she has been published in a variety of webzines and anthologies including The Ekphrastic Review, The Lake<\/i>, Amaryllis<\/i> and Algebra of Owls.<\/i>\u00a0 In addition to writing poetry, she enjoys creating handmade collage and handmade, handbound photomontage booklets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mata Hari and the Jellyfish Time bends in the exam hall, drapes skim scuffed parquet floor, the smell of plimsoles and dust lingers. All quiet, except the huff and yawn of an old, old invigilator roaming the aisles like a kraken. Above, carved in oak, the names of seventy-six glorious boys. They gave […]<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787","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=17787"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17860,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17787\/revisions\/17860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndrapes skim scuffed parquet
\nfloor, the smell of plimsoles and dust
\nlingers. All quiet, except the huff
\nand yawn of an old, old invigilator
\nroaming the aisles like a kraken.<\/p>\n
\nof seventy-six glorious boys.
\nThey gave their<\/em> lives<\/em> for their country<\/em>
\nlearnt to be men in the Great War:
\nE.G. Boucher,<\/em> C.J. Stirk,<\/em> F.A. Zinke \u2013 <\/em>
\neach scratched ink across scripts,
\nsat at desks like these, propped
\nflushed, hopeful cheeks in hands.<\/p>\n
\na cloud of yellow dust rises.
\nGirls tattooed in mauve and jade
\ntrail pony-tails like fronds of seaweed
\nin paper pools. Jellyfish pulse,
\nsea anemones come alive
\nas a vision in chiffon floats past.<\/p>\n