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You brought us unimagined warmth, roasted our arrow kill into Trapped you behind glass, hoisted high on coasts & estuaries, In your debt for turning the heat up under cedar, of iron burner, to create perfume You perk things up in the seductor\u2019s bedroom. you offer ignition for the post-coital spliff, the passing Happy to do the dirty stuff. You hunger for sticky swabs, in the terrible smoke. Are always patient into a stained-glass sky. Juggle you. Jump through hoops of you but most of all we ask who\u2019d cage a man wet with petrol. Sit them around our spent campfires. Have them warm their hands <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Simon French<\/strong> lives in Derby. He has had poems published in magazines including The Rialto, Stand, Ambit, The London Magazine <\/em>and Ink Sweat & Tears<\/em>. He runs a poetry workshop and is currently working toward publishing his first collection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fire You brought us unimagined warmth, roasted our arrow kill into the earliest carvery. The cave as ideal home. Trapped you behind glass, hoisted high on coasts & estuaries, let you jitterbug for boats to pinpoint anchorage. In your debt for turning the heat up under cedar, sandalwood, myrrh, evicting them from […]<\/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-20379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379","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=20379"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20464,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20379\/revisions\/20464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFire<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nthe earliest carvery. The cave as ideal home.<\/p>\n
\nlet you jitterbug for boats to pinpoint anchorage.<\/p>\n
\nsandalwood, myrrh, evicting them from the hang & swing<\/p>\n
\nfrom holy elsewheres we can barely conceive.<\/p>\n
\nPlace you on candles in a chorus line of light,<\/p>\n
\nof the Olympic flame. The basking.<\/p>\n
\nexcavated tumour, dispatched<\/p>\n
\nas we wring out goodbyes before you launch our dead<\/p>\n
\nWe are the perfect partnership. Can have fun with you.<\/p>\n
\nyou turn your back on arsonists, anarchists, the torturers<\/p>\n
\nLet their caves be damp, bones brimming with frost.<\/p>\n
\nover ash.<\/p>\n