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The defendant\u2019s elderly mother tells you You listen to the graphic descriptions like a punch in the stomach. His mother\u2019s face twists as if she is sucking straining to hear the barrister and the custodial guidelines. summing up, thinking about how you will skirt over the facts his mother probably hears more than she lets on that much easier to swallow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rachel Burns<\/strong> has poetry published in Crannog, Poetry Salzburg Review, Algebra of Owl<\/em>s and is anthologized in Poems for Grenfell Tower, Poems for the NHS <\/em>and #MeToo<\/em>. She has a poetry pamphlet forthcoming with Vane Women Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Truth The defendant\u2019s elderly mother tells you she can\u2019t hear very well. You listen to the graphic descriptions of the child images her son viewed on his computer like a punch in the stomach. You have children, you are a mother. His mother\u2019s face twists as if she is sucking on a […]<\/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-20491","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\/20491","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=20491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20492,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20491\/revisions\/20492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTruth<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
\nshe can\u2019t hear very well.<\/p>\n
\nof the child images her son viewed on his computer<\/p>\n
\nYou have children, you are a mother.<\/p>\n
\non a lemon. She clutches her handbag<\/p>\n
\nas he discusses each count<\/p>\n
\nYou listen to the judge\u2019s<\/p>\n
\nhow you will avoid the truth<\/p>\n
\nif she asks. For you know<\/p>\n
\nselective hearing makes the truth<\/p>\n