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Bear<\/strong> Betrayal will happily walk with you, on the broken dirt.\u00a0 Stew woke clean white firm friends.\u00a0 When it was time, the bear against the light, sent shadows skittering of the house became dead ends.\u00a0 One night the sea had ever seen.\u00a0 The sea took pity struck out for the moonlit horizon.\u00a0 Stew <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Martin Figura<\/strong>\u2019s\u00a0collection and show Whistle<\/em> was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award and won the 2013 Saboteur Award for Best Spoken Word Show.\u00a0 Shed<\/em> (Gatehouse Press) and Dr Zeeman\u2019s Catastrophe Machine<\/em> (Cinnamon Press) were published in 2016.\u00a0 He lives in Norwich with sciatica.\u00a0 Website: www.martinfigura.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Notes: This is from a sequence of poems commissioned by the Army Benevolent Fund \u2013 The Soldiers\u2019 Charity. 75th Anniversary.<\/em><\/p>\n This is Stew\u2019s story: https:\/\/soldierscharity.org\/stories\/stewart-harris\/<\/a> Bear for Stewart Harris Betrayal will happily walk with you, knows your patterns, the roof-runs and dead ends of conflict.\u00a0 Conflict will lift you skyward, then lay you down on the broken dirt.\u00a0 Stew woke clean white and wondered if this was hell.\u00a0 The bear in the next bed explained it was […]<\/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-20369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369","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=20369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20481,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20369\/revisions\/20481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor Stewart Harris<\/em><\/p>\n
\nknows your patterns, the roof-runs
\nand dead ends of conflict.\u00a0 Conflict
\nwill lift you skyward, then lay you down<\/p>\n
\nand wondered if this was hell.\u00a0 The bear
\nin the next bed explained it was Birmingham
\nand over weeks they reminisced, became<\/p>\n
\ncame home with him and was too big
\nfor the house.\u00a0 The bear blundered about
\nbreaking ornaments, cracked its head<\/p>\n
\nabout the walls.\u00a0 The bear brooded and
\nthe children shrank back from its rancid breath
\nwhich made the bear roar.\u00a0 The rooms<\/p>\n
\nStew placed his hand into the bear\u2019s paw
\nand together they walked to the edge
\nof the sea and were the most sorrowful sight<\/p>\n
\nand let them step into her low swell.
\nThey clung together while the sea
\nmurmured about home until the bear<\/p>\n
\nstood alone on the kitchen floor, water pooled
\nabout him.\u00a0 He was so tired, his own undone
\nshoelaces were an unfathomable conundrum.<\/p>\n
\nThis is Stew: https:\/\/vimeo.com\/290711236<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"