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Interference<\/strong><\/p>\n Two rings and I snatch up the receiver, And I wonder if this is why I cannot hear Fiona Sinclair<\/strong> reviews for numerous poetry magazines including IS&T<\/em> and Happenstance<\/em>. She is\u00a0 the editor of the online poetry magazine Message in a Bottle<\/a>.<\/em> Hew second pamphlet A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em> is out now<\/a> from Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Interference Two rings and I snatch up the receiver, static crackles and curses on the line scouring my ear drums . I just make out a Lilliputian voice , and shriek \u2018How did you get on?\u2019 Your response is a tiny urgent whine. After a few more attempts at making contact I end the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-2756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756","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=2756"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2759,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2756\/revisions\/2759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstatic crackles and curses on the line
\nscouring my ear drums .
\nI just make out a Lilliputian voice ,
\nand shriek \u2018How did you get on?\u2019
\nYour response is a tiny urgent whine.
\nAfter a few more attempts at making contact
\nI end the call like an unsuccessful s\u00e9ance.<\/p>\n
\nmy late mother trying to make the first move
\nor grandmother passing judgement on new friends,
\ntheir efforts \u00a0jammed by the scraunch and hiss of white noise.
\n <\/p>\n