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The card given out at his funeral<\/strong><\/p>\n has no obituary. No order of service. Above that, an old print plate of his depth of cut, luminescence, blackness, a thumbprint in negative, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Born in Hong Kong, Claire Cox<\/strong> now lives and works in Oxfordshire. She is Associate Editor for ignition<\/b>press, and is currently a part-time practice-based PhD student at Royal Holloway, University of London studying poetry and disaster. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The card given out at his funeral has no obituary. No order of service. Just his name, curlicued and slant, year of birth, hyphen, year of death. Above that, an old print plate of his reproduced landscape-wise, its surface sectioned into eighths, each eighth quizzing depth of cut, luminescence, blackness, how acid bites, […]<\/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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","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=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18330,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nJust his name, curlicued and slant,
\nyear of birth, hyphen, year of death.<\/p>\n
\nreproduced landscape-wise, its surface
\nsectioned into eighths, each eighth quizzing<\/p>\n
\nhow acid bites, how resin resists.
\n\u2018Fig. A\u2019 points to pale ripples:<\/p>\n
\ndabbed there momentarily \u2013
\nhis brief experiment in flesh.<\/p>\n