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We observe this word, abscission<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n turn fashionable, hang in air. Perhaps this year holds terms that glorious fall. Never gutter-sent. for their readiness in separation. <\/p>\n Beth McDonough<\/strong>\u2019s poetry appears in Causeway<\/em>, <\/em>Antiphon, <\/em>Interpreter\u2019s House<\/em>and elsewhere; she reviews in DURA<\/em>. Handfast<\/em> (2016, with Ruth Aylett) explores family experiences \u2013 Aylett\u2019s of dementia. and McDonough\u2019s of autism. She was recently Writer in Residence at Dundee Contemporary Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We observe this word, abscission turn fashionable, hang in air. Once botanists\u2019 part-property, at least cased in scientific sights; now \u2013 in this most now of times \u2013 it\u2019s ours. Perhaps this year holds terms longer, closer than is usual. Leaves in every kind of autumn still a little, thinwrist-clutch reluctant trees […]<\/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-17825","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\/17825","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=17825"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17827,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17825\/revisions\/17827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOnce botanists\u2019 part-property, at least
\ncased in scientific sights; now \u2013
\nin this most now of times \u2013 it\u2019s ours.<\/p>\n
\nlonger, closer than is usual. Leaves
\nin every kind of autumn still a little,
\nthinwrist-clutch reluctant trees before<\/p>\n
\nSevering, their moves amaze
\nnew-play with grace. All our seasoned
\nexpectations have not prepared us<\/p>\n
\nWatchful, we learn to accept abscission<\/em>.
\n <\/p>\n