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As Safe as Houses<\/strong><\/p>\n Cracks are first to appear, A rumbling boom imagine the worst. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sue Wallace-Shaddad<\/strong> is currently undertaking the second year of the Newcastle University\/Poetry School MA in Writing Poetry. She has poems published by London Grip, Ink Sweat & Tears, Poetry Space, The French Literary Review<\/em> and in magazines and anthologies. Sue is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" As Safe as Houses Cracks are first to appear, then walls burst their seams. Windows rattle out of frames, the roof lifting its lid to the sky. A rumbling boom hurtles down the street. Stunned passers-by turn their heads imagine the worst. A black pall clambers high hovers like a fallen angel […]<\/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-20537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537","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=20537"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20538,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20537\/revisions\/20538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthen walls burst their seams.
\nWindows rattle out of frames,
\nthe roof lifting its lid to the sky.<\/p>\n
\nhurtles down the street.
\nStunned
\npassers-by turn their heads<\/span><\/p>\n
\nA black pall clambers high
\nhovers like a fallen angel
\nover newly empty\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 space.<\/p>\n