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Therapy<\/strong><\/p>\n Take thistledown, hold it in the bowl No, it can\u2019t mend your heart, A cure for that dull ache across the ocean? Find a river Let your eyes ride a kingfisher\u2019s how easily they dive, come up <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alex Josephy<\/strong>‘s collection White Roads<\/em> was published by Paekakariki Press (2018). Other Blackbirds <\/em>(2016) is a Cinnamon Press pamphlet. Her poems appear in magazines and anthologies in England and Italy; find out more at www.alexjosephy.eu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Therapy Take thistledown, hold it in the bowl of your palms. Feel it tingle like Spumante. No, it can\u2019t mend your heart, but it will float you to the surface of your skin. A cure for that dull ache under the ribs,\u00a0that beats\u00a0each time you long for your child across the ocean? […]<\/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-18926","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\/18926","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=18926"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18992,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18926\/revisions\/18992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof your palms. Feel it tingle
\nlike Spumante.<\/p>\n
\nbut it will float you to the surface
\nof your skin.<\/p>\n
\nunder the ribs,\u00a0that beats\u00a0each time
\nyou long for your child<\/p>\n
\nor a canal. Worn stone steps are best,
\ndown to the towpath.<\/p>\n
\nquick shot of blue, borrow
\na moorhen\u2019s buoyancy;<\/p>\n
\nsomewhere unexpected, sleeved
\nin a twist of air.<\/p>\n