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Coast Redwood<\/strong><\/p>\n When we come across her in the bluebells, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Philip Foster<\/strong> lives in Hebden Bridge. He was a founder member of the Albert Poets, in Huddersfield, and has won Ilkley and Arvon prizes. Most recently he has been a regular contributor to Pennine Platform<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coast Redwood When we come across her in the bluebells, stretched out flat, she says Sequoia Sempervirens is the tallest living species of tree on Earth, altogether more ancient and venerable than, say, the Douglas Fir or the Small-leaved Lime. In the field, in the monastery of its own greening, the line […]<\/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-19417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417","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=19417"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19704,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19417\/revisions\/19704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstretched out flat, she says Sequoia Sempervirens<\/em>
\nis the tallest living species of tree on Earth,
\naltogether more ancient and venerable than, say,
\nthe Douglas Fir or the Small-leaved Lime.
\nIn the field, in the monastery of its own greening,
\nthe line of this snapped tree is an empire
\nbecoming its dark ages, shifting from iambic
\nto chaotic Northern gutturals, reverting
\nfrom supply chains and Agmen formate<\/em>
\nto oiled hair and heroism. Sometimes she wakes
\nfrom pipedreams and can\u2019t breathe because of
\nhow dirty the ward is, unaware of the year
\nor month, or the meaning of the word medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n