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bad dream<\/strong><\/p>\n malum somnium<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n a found poem<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n as the daughter of a bankrupt businessman<\/p>\n I\u2019m into men in prison and the hashtagged word<\/p>\n <\/p>\n erasure of memory is the abiding theme<\/p>\n trying to hurt a person\u2019s physical being<\/p>\n cum fundis et sagittis amoris<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with slings and arrows of love<\/em><\/p>\n while the war goes largely unmentioned<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I\u2019m rarely this lyrical but year by year<\/p>\n I\u2019m inching slowly towards a now<\/p>\n where we\u2019re expected to agree<\/p>\n that the bitter medicine is good for us<\/p>\n <\/p>\n it goes beyond friendship<\/p>\n vadit ultra politica<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 it goes beyond politics<\/em><\/p>\n it goes beyond fear of writer\u2019s block<\/p>\n this fascination with the truth<\/p>\n behind the truth as it\u2019s presented<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the silence that precedes the nightmare<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julie Mellor<\/strong> holds a PhD from Sheffield Hallam University. Her poems have appeared in various magazines and her pamphlets, Breathing Through Our Bones<\/em> (2012) and Out of the Weather<\/em> (2017) are published by Smith\/Doorstop. She blogs at \u00a0http:\/\/juliemellorpoetsite. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" bad dream malum somnium a found poem as the daughter of a bankrupt businessman I\u2019m into men in prison and the hashtagged word erasure of memory is the abiding theme trying to hurt a person\u2019s physical being cum fundis et sagittis amoris \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 with slings and arrows of love while […]<\/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-18200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200","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=18200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18320,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18200\/revisions\/18320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}