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Going Home<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The house has grown small and fragile.<\/p>\n The ghosts at the top of the stairs<\/p>\n are now cupboards<\/p>\n <\/p>\n holding dolls that are strange<\/p>\n and worn and familiar,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n they suffocate the \u00a0excitement of childhood.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Somewhere inside I am bitter<\/p>\n that life is drifting<\/p>\n <\/p>\n my heart is fretful<\/p>\n and the ticking of time<\/p>\n cheats me as the clock doubles up <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fiona Donaghey<\/strong> was born in Dublin and moved to Norwich twelve years ago.\u00a0 She is a mature Student\u00a0 studying for a BA Hons Degree in English with Cultural Studies at City College Norwich. She has been writing poetry for seven years . Her poetry has been placed in competitions and in The Poetry Rivals Anthology<\/em>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going Home The house has grown small and fragile. The ghosts at the top of the stairs are now cupboards holding dolls that are strange and worn and familiar, they suffocate the \u00a0excitement of childhood. Somewhere inside I am bitter that life is drifting my heart is […]<\/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-3401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401","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=3401"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3403,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3401\/revisions\/3403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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