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A Burial Corridor<\/strong><\/p>\n “Surely what is needed now is a grand strategic vision for green burial places to reclaim our cities with urban and peri-urban woods and forests and for it to be a requirement for trunk transport routes to include linear wildlife burial corridors alongside them” – <\/em>Professor John Ashton, ‘Necropolis in crisis’, Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine.<\/em><\/p>\n Is there a better way to see you off They grew an oak tree. Day by day, it guides – \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sam Hickford<\/strong> is a poet and journalist who has never been naked on a golf course before, contrary to popular belief. His work has been published in The Guardian, The Tablet, Ink Sweat & Tears, Amethyst Review, The Ofi Press<\/em>, and on selected banana skins in the Greater London area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Burial Corridor “Surely what is needed now is a grand strategic vision for green burial places to reclaim our cities with urban and peri-urban woods and forests and for it to be a requirement for trunk transport routes to include linear wildlife burial corridors alongside them” – Professor John Ashton, ‘Necropolis […]<\/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-20535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535","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=20535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20561,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20535\/revisions\/20561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthan amidst the screeching and the hum
\nof wheedling engines, feistily gobbling
\nautomated fuel? There is no better. I remember
\nhirpling over the dream-M62
\npast crop-circles. Past cottages and cotton-clouds
\n& you in the passenger-seat. I felt you breathe
\nagainst the dashboard & I reckoned that
\nsomehow I’d clawed a road into your heart
\n(or, at least, some blocked-off artery…)<\/p>\n
\nminiature – the frantic traffic through the road
\nburdened with busy prayers & sacred sights
\n& burdened with my deaf-drone pilgrimage
\namong the whiplash-sky and metal-rain.
\nThere is no better. God or this guide has seated you
\namong a gas-leak meadow in the stars.<\/p>\n