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In Time<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/strong>She\u2019d always ironed out the creases<\/p>\n from his forehead to his socks,<\/p>\n even their sheets were pressed<\/p>\n like paper keepsakes in an album.<\/p>\n Each morning she\u2019d uncrumple<\/p>\n and erase the lines they\u2019d spoken<\/p>\n on linens; wash then steam-spread them<\/p>\n left to right. But last night\u2019s words were his<\/p>\n alone. He fished for his wallet in starched waves<\/p>\n of trouser pockets; the picture inside<\/p>\n showed her face at a time when<\/p>\n the only lines were from where<\/p>\n he\u2019d folded the photo.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Carly Lightfoot<\/strong> is from Exeter, Devon. She has previously been shortlisted for an Eric Gregory Award and has had poems published in The Rialto, Agenda Broadsheet, Monkey Kettle, and others.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In Time She\u2019d always ironed out the creases from his forehead to his socks, even their sheets were pressed like paper keepsakes in an album. Each morning she\u2019d uncrumple and erase the lines they\u2019d spoken on linens; wash then steam-spread them left to right. But last night\u2019s words were his alone. He fished […]<\/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-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","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=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2962,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}