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Something\u2019s wrong<\/strong><\/p>\n This is how it will start: to follow and she will see Listen to me, she will say, but her eyes will be wide open, before she tells you that she is turn your back. Years later <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sharon Phillips<\/strong> started learning to write poems a few years ago, after she retired from her career in education. Her poems have been published online and in print, and have been shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (2017), the Indigo Firsts pamphlet competition (2018) and the WoLF Poetry Competition (2019). Sharon won the Borderlines Poetry Competition in 2017 and was among the winners of the Poetry Society Members\u2019 Competition in November 2018. She lives in Otley, West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"  : Something\u2019s wrong This is how it will start: from the other side of a room you\u2019ll hear your mum talk, loud but so fast you won\u2019t be able to follow and she will see you\u2019re looking so she\u2019ll come over and pull you aside. Listen to me, she will say, I\u2019ve got […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20488"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20507,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20488\/revisions\/20507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfrom the other side of a room
\nyou\u2019ll hear your mum talk, loud
\nbut so fast you won\u2019t be able<\/p>\n
\nyou\u2019re looking so she\u2019ll come
\nover and pull you aside.<\/p>\n
\nI\u2019ve got something to tell you,
\nand you will think of cancer\u2014
\nbreast, perhaps, or womb\u2014<\/p>\n
\nand her teeth will shine with spit
\nand she\u2019ll pant a little laugh<\/p>\n
\nthe Holy Ghost and you will
\nstare at the flakes of mascara
\nbeneath her lashes before you<\/p>\n
\nyou will feel her strong fingers
\nclutching at your bicep.<\/p>\n