{"id":325,"date":"2011-07-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=325"},"modified":"2011-07-24T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T18:00:00","slug":"gareth-sparks-repairs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/gareth-sparks-repairs\/","title":{"rendered":"Gareth Spark's 'Repairs'"},"content":{"rendered":"

Repairs<\/span>

Grit dust lifts in a dry wind blown over the ruin\u2019s stones,<\/span>
Corkscrews in clouds of white pepper, rattles into the closed van<\/span>
And my eyes as I work at the repairs.<\/span>
Everything in the yard is broken; engines cracked like finger bones,<\/span>
Locks twisted like the snapped necks of birds,<\/span>
Even words on the business sign, even words break,<\/span>
Blue vinyl peeling into the pale breeze.<\/span>
I stand in the yard\u2019s centre, unsteady on the day\u2019s palm.<\/span>
Sun-faded cap worn through at the peak, knee bone drilled with pain,<\/span>
And in the work she fades, the woman, the one.<\/span>
Everything in the yard is broken, and repairs are going slow.<\/span>




*Gareth Spark<\/a><\/span> was born in 1979 and grew up in Whitby.  He published his first collection At The Breakwater<\/span> at age 22. He has since published two further collections (Ramraid and Rain in a dry land<\/span>) as well as the crime thriller, Black Rain<\/span> (Skrev Press, 2004) He has travelled widely and currently resides in the town of his birth, where he writes, patiently, and publishes in various on-line (and occasionally print, journals).<\/span>
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RepairsGrit dust lifts in a dry wind blown over the ruin\u2019s stones,Corkscrews in clouds of white pepper, rattles into the closed vanAnd my eyes as I work at the repairs.Everything in the yard is broken; engines cracked like finger bones,Locks twisted like the snapped necks of birds,Even words on the business sign, even words break,Blue […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}