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On the Calendar<\/strong><\/p>\n The last job of the fading year <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Elizabeth Rimmer<\/strong> has published three poetry collections with Red Squirrel Press, Wherever We Live Now<\/em> (2011), The Territory of Rain<\/em>, (2015) and Haggards<\/em> (2018), and is currently working on a fourth, Burnedthumb. More here: https:\/\/burnedthumb.co.uk\/#page<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On the Calendar The last job of the fading year is transferring the important dates of birthdays and anniversaries, policy renewals, the prompts to \u2018save the day\u2019, the cards to buy, parties we\u2019ll plan, perhaps outdoors, if we get the weather. Memories distract me of the cold July we had our silver […]<\/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-20591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591","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=20591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20614,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20591\/revisions\/20614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nis transferring the important dates
\nof birthdays and anniversaries,
\npolicy renewals, the prompts
\nto \u2018save the day\u2019, the cards to buy, parties
\nwe\u2019ll plan, perhaps outdoors, if we get
\nthe weather. Memories distract me
\nof the cold July we had our silver wedding,
\nor the night when Sally knocked
\nher wineglass in the pond, while Vic
\nand Ian spent an hour to say
\nhow much they hated parties,
\nand Joyce danced up the road to home.
\nThen there\u2019s a month that\u2019s full
\nof booby-traps \u2013 two days, a week apart,
\nwhen cards won\u2019t be required.
\nMay gets me in the gullet, every time.<\/p>\n