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I am the Prevaricator<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019m distracted clearing Granny\u2019s house. For weeks the orange-rayon hand-me-down I could mend the tear tonight, with backstitch, Maybe it\u2019s the way this torn dress, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Veronica Aaronson<\/strong> lives in Devon.\u00a0 She is the co-founder of the Teignmouth Poetry Festival.\u00a0 Her work has been published in journals, anthologies and online sites.\u00a0 Her first collection Nothing About the Birds is Ordinary This Morning<\/em> (2018) was published by Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I am the Prevaricator I\u2019m distracted clearing Granny\u2019s house. I don\u2019t see the sprig of barbed wire sprouting with weeds in the garden. It rips my dress from pocket to hem. For weeks the orange-rayon hand-me-down has been curled up on the sofa.\u00a0 It never moves, like an animal that needs more sleep […]<\/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-20273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273","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=20273"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20275,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20273\/revisions\/20275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI don\u2019t see the sprig of barbed wire
\nsprouting with weeds in the garden.
\nIt rips my dress from pocket to hem.<\/p>\n
\nhas been curled up on the sofa.\u00a0 It never moves,
\nlike an animal that needs more sleep than
\none winter\u2019s hibernation.<\/p>\n
\nin the time it takes to boil the rice,
\ninstead, I convince myself this rice needs stirring.
\nLast night the thread wasn\u2019t
\na good-enough colour match.<\/p>\n
\nonce her pride and joy,
\nlights up the whole room,
\nlike an earthed moon.<\/p>\n