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Realm<\/strong><\/p>\n From an upstairs window here at home, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mark Totterdell<\/strong>\u2019s poems have appeared widely in magazines and have occasionally won competitions. His collections are This Patter of Traces<\/em> (Oversteps Books, 2014) and Mapping<\/em> (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2018).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Realm From an upstairs window here at home, the double line of ragged hills looks flat as file dividers in slightly different tones of blue. The thrill of finding a wide realm between them! Old farms with undead yellow elms, immense bronze globes of oaks, silver power lines, field beyond field like […]<\/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-20604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604","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=20604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20630,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20604\/revisions\/20630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe double line of ragged hills looks flat
\nas file dividers in slightly different tones
\nof blue. The thrill of finding a wide realm
\nbetween them! Old farms with undead yellow elms,
\nimmense bronze globes of oaks, silver power lines,
\nfield beyond field like undiscovered rooms
\nin\u00a0 semi-lucid dreams, the shaggy grasslands
\nwhere owls bomb down on voles. Among maize haulms,
\na stone like a misformed egg has cracked wide open
\nwhere the plough has caught it, and there\u2019s a whole
\ntiny intricate crystal world within it.
\nIt\u2019s time to draw back and close the cabinet.<\/p>\n