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Peninkulma<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n The precise distance at which Much further, you might think, than some dormitory suburb, by the hourly chime by the hack and grumble Not close at hand, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matt Merritt<\/strong> is the author of three poetry collections and two natural history books, including The Elephant Tests<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 and A Sky Full Of Birds<\/a><\/em>. He lives in Warwickshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peninkulma The precise distance at which a dog\u2019s bark dissolves into nothing. Much further, you might think, in the snow-soft forests of Scandinavia than some dormitory suburb, or a small town whose sleep is still measured by the hourly chime of a steeple bell. But no. Some nights, I\u2019m startled awake by […]<\/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":[138,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2019-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669","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=20669"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20800,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20669\/revisions\/20800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na dog\u2019s bark dissolves
\ninto nothing.<\/p>\n
\nin the snow-soft forests
\nof Scandinavia<\/p>\n
\nor a small town whose sleep
\nis still measured<\/p>\n
\nof a steeple bell. But no.
\nSome nights, I\u2019m startled awake<\/p>\n
\nof one or other hound
\nI thought I\u2019d left behind.<\/p>\n
\nbut somewhere out, beyond,
\nand impossible to throw off the scent.<\/p>\n