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Ghosts<\/strong><\/p>\n dry rot, damp and musty airlessness <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Alwyn Marriage<\/strong>\u2019s ten books include poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Formerly university lecturer and CEO of two NGOs, she’s Managing Editor of Oversteps Books and research fellow at Surrey University. She gives poetry readings and workshops in Britain and abroad. Website: http:\/\/www.marriages.me.uk\/alwyn\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghosts dry rot, damp and musty airlessness conjure up ghosts that even dogs can see drifts of blue under green leaves bear a whiff of young romance in maytime long ago sunlit caf\u00e9s in foreign city squares waft in on the aroma of fresh coffee a gas leak in the pavement drags […]<\/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-19766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766","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=19766"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20000,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19766\/revisions\/20000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nconjure up ghosts that even dogs can see
\ndrifts of blue under green leaves bear a whiff
\nof young romance in maytime long ago
\nsunlit caf\u00e9s in foreign city squares
\nwaft in on the aroma of fresh coffee
\na gas leak in the pavement
\ndrags me back to a reluctant
\nvisit to those chambers
\nwhere I once smelled evil<\/p>\n