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Home improvements<\/strong><\/p>\n Dark red bricks huddle An outburst of bird song Through the hole high in our wall Diffuse light has entered, The house has a new eye, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Demetriades<\/strong>\u00a0 studied English at Leeds University, went to drama school and worked as an actor.\u00a0 Later she trained as a transpersonal psychotherapist.\u00a0 She has had poems published in Reach Poetry, Sarasvati <\/em>and Dawntreader<\/em> magazines, (Indigo Dreams Publishing), Anima Magazine<\/em> and\u00a0 several anthologies. She has been published online in Clear Poetry, Ink Sweat and Tears, Eunoia Literary Review <\/em>and Allegro Poetry<\/em>.\u00a0 She lives in South Devon with her family.<\/p>\n Home improvements Dark red bricks huddle off duty on the patio, coated in plasterer\u2019s dust, knocked out of their wall like old teeth. An outburst of bird song enters our home – caught in the wonder of stereo my ears tilt towards the once silent flank of the house. Through the hole […]<\/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-19553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553","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=19553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19699,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19553\/revisions\/19699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\noff duty on the patio,
\ncoated in plasterer\u2019s dust,
\nknocked out of their wall
\nlike old teeth.<\/p>\n
\nenters our home –
\ncaught in the wonder of stereo
\nmy ears tilt towards
\nthe once silent flank of the house.<\/p>\n
\nwhite rapids stream across blue,
\ntheir fleetness offset
\nby a jagged brick frame.<\/p>\n
\ngleams through sheeted plastic
\nthinning the shadows inside.<\/p>\n
\nI wish it didn\u2019t need glass
\nto seal me back in.<\/p>\n
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