The card given out at his funeral<\/strong><\/p>\nhas no obituary. No order of service.
\nJust his name, curlicued and slant,
\nyear of birth, hyphen, year of death.<\/p>\n
Above that, an old print plate of his
\nreproduced landscape-wise, its surface
\nsectioned into eighths, each eighth quizzing<\/p>\n
depth of cut, luminescence, blackness,
\nhow acid bites, how resin resists.
\n\u2018Fig. A\u2019 points to pale ripples:<\/p>\n
a thumbprint in negative,
\ndabbed there momentarily \u2013
\nhis brief experiment in flesh.<\/p>\n
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Other voters’ comments included:<\/p>\n
Hit me in the heart – understated, interesting use of language … her poem stayed with me the most… e.g. how we are all but ‘a short experiment in flesh’. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nBeautiful, restrained and powerful<\/em><\/p>\nI like its economy and unexpectedness. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nI love this poem’s allusiveness, its brevity, its poignance. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nOh the sadness. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nA surprising, and beautifully detailed memorial to the printmaker. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nSuch a gentle reverie and homily of a lost much loved one. Gentle, spiritual, thoughtful and with grace <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nThe simplicity of the form and language allows the grief to speak forth without rhetoric. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nsimply written yet finely crafted <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nA brief but recognisable representation of a life. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nBeautifully written and resonant. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nAn extraordinary poem- superbly crafted <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nI liked the baldness of the opening stanza and the concreteness of details. <\/span><\/em><\/p>\nIt tells a story, but in a stark way. Heartfelt<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
You looked, you read, you voted and the ‘beautiful and disquieting poem’ that is Claire Cox’s ‘The card given out at his funeral’ is the IS&T Pick of the Month for February. Born in Hong Kong, Claire now lives and works in Oxfordshire. She is Associate Editor for ignitionpress, and is currently a part-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18780"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18793,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18780\/revisions\/18793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}