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Grey Mare\u2019s Tail<\/strong> Goosanders tack from Amble Braid, over On a promontory Blue topaz <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Edwin Stockdale<\/strong> has published two poetry pamphlets with Red Squirrel Press: Aventurine<\/em> (September 2014) and The Glower of the Sun<\/i> (January 2019). Currently, he is studying for a PhD in Creative Writing at Leeds Trinity University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grey Mare\u2019s Tail Warkworth Castle January 1463 Goosanders tack from Amble Braid, over the weir, through the bridge\u2019s twin arches, round the curve of the Coquet.\u00a0 Wind scratches the water\u2019s surface. On a promontory girdles of castle.\u00a0 Beside the curtain wall the polygonal tower, grey mare\u2019s tail. The arrowloops on each face […]<\/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-19567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567","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=19567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19746,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19567\/revisions\/19746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nWarkworth Castle<\/em>
\n January 1463<\/em><\/p>\n
\nthe weir, through the bridge\u2019s twin arches,
\nround the curve of the Coquet.\u00a0 Wind scratches
\nthe water\u2019s surface.<\/p>\n
\ngirdles of castle.\u00a0 Beside the curtain wall
\nthe polygonal tower, grey mare\u2019s tail.
\nThe arrowloops on each face rise unbroken
\nthrough two storeys.\u00a0 George looks
\nout, looks through, looks within.
\nThe castle\u2019s geography:\u00a0 Carrickfergus
\ntower, keep, lion tower, little stair
\ntower, west postern tower, grey mare\u2019s tail
\ntower, well house, east postern.
\nIn the catacomb of the great tower lies
\nthe chapel.\u00a0 George, Duke of Clarence, kneels
\nat the feet of Our Lady, recites his devotions
\nlike his mother taught him.<\/span><\/p>\n
\nbeads from his rosary run through his fingers,
\na linctus against shadowed days.<\/span><\/p>\n