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Missive<\/strong><\/p>\n This is my dead letter In the middle of the night I send you a grey gull to <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nicki Heinen<\/strong> is widely published in magazines and anthologies, including Magma<\/em> and Bad Betty Press<\/em>. She hosts Words & Jazz at the Vortex Jazz Club. Her pamphlet Itch i<\/em>s out with Eyewear Publishing, and was an LRB Bookshop Book of the Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Missive This is my dead letter my notebook of sifted seeds my kraken spilly of ghost thoughts In the middle of the night when it is soft and varnished as a boat\u2019s hull, when the angels and dogs have gone to sleep I send you a grey gull to lick feathers into […]<\/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-20600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600","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=20600"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20621,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20600\/revisions\/20621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmy notebook of sifted seeds
\nmy kraken spilly of ghost thoughts<\/p>\n
\nwhen it is soft and
\nvarnished as a boat\u2019s hull,
\nwhen the angels
\nand dogs have gone to sleep<\/p>\n
\nlick feathers into your lovely eyes
\nI finger the ventricles of your
\nmended heart, stitch one button
\nto your mouth so you can
\nsee again, so you see me again<\/p>\n