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The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and this week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme \u2018Poetry as a Lifeline\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out more about the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival here<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0 <\/p>\n Remember how, one night not long ago<\/p>\n you told our daughter what you\u2019d read<\/p>\n about infinity? I couldn\u2019t understand,<\/p>\n although you drew a diagram<\/p>\n to show that two parallel lines,<\/p>\n if left to run forever, will eventually meet.<\/p>\n Remember when she came home<\/p>\n crying the next day covered in shame.<\/p>\n In front of everyone her teacher<\/p>\n had dismissed her father\u2019s proof.<\/p>\n But I believe you. If you and I had never met<\/p>\n that rainy night in Camden Town,<\/p>\n if that night had never been,<\/p>\n that\u2019s where we\u2019d be, each walking the line<\/p>\n towards infinity, searching for the place<\/p>\n where the impossible can happen<\/p>\n and two parallel lines collide.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jacqueline Saphra<\/strong>‘s first collection, The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions<\/em> <\/a>(flipped eye), developed with the support of The Arts Council of England, was shortlisted for the Aldeburgh First Collection Prize 2011.\u00a0 ‘Geometry’ appears in The Kitchen of Lovely Contraptions<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ring of Fire<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n She\u2019s lost track of her many hiding places<\/p>\n winter coat pocket\u00a0\u00a0 trunk of summer outfits<\/p>\n under the stairs\u00a0\u00a0 behind the royal wedding plate<\/p>\n television or sofa cushions\u00a0\u00a0 amidst tins<\/p>\n of tomatoes and chicken soup\u00a0\u00a0 school pleats<\/p>\n and towels waiting to be washed and ironed.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She has tucked a poem into each bottle<\/p>\n like a cry for rescue washing up on shore<\/p>\n explaining why the house is mottled<\/p>\n in pink and green\u00a0\u00a0 why she\u2019s pilfered<\/p>\n pocket money\u00a0\u00a0 why her man needs throttling<\/p>\n for all the promises he\u2019s never delivered.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In hopes of quitting she tries weekly meetings<\/p>\n but each time leaves high off the fumes<\/p>\n the others have breathed. Back home she opens<\/p>\n another\u00a0\u00a0 the rhymes coming fast and furious<\/p>\n how the black ducks strut out of the pen<\/p>\n like a gaggle of aunties on their way to a funeral<\/p>\n <\/p>\n how foxes prey upon the guinea fowl<\/p>\n each night while the cock keeps his hens<\/p>\n in line\u00a0\u00a0 fields are allowed to lie fallow<\/p>\n ponies unable to bear the children<\/p>\n are sold on\u00a0\u00a0 like a paper boat caught in the flow<\/p>\n of the stream to the canal and beyond\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 .<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Giddy as a schoolgirl bouncing off walls<\/p>\n she has the sudden strength to muck out stables<\/p>\n and silage the grain\u00a0 to write a poem that will<\/p>\n sell so well she can put aside this terrible<\/p>\n habit and live a peaceful life \u00a0\u00a0no delay<\/p>\n to having dinner ready and waiting on the table.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Home from school the children find her<\/p>\n passed out on the floor encircled in an array<\/p>\n of bottles like a protective ring of fire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Charles Lauder<\/strong> Jr’s poems have appeared internationally, including such journals as Stand<\/em>, Poetry Salzburg Review<\/em>, The SHOp<\/em>, California Quarterly<\/em>, Texas Observer<\/em>, Agenda<\/em>, Poetry Nottingham International<\/em>, Hearing Voices<\/em>, and Under the Radar<\/em>. His pamphlet, Bleeds<\/a><\/em>, was published in 2012 (Crystal Clear Creators).\u00a0 ‘Ring of Fire’ has previously appeared in Stand<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 2012 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival runs for the 2nd-4th November, and this week, Ink Sweat & Tears is featuring poems on the theme \u2018Poetry as a Lifeline\u2019 which is the subject of the IS&T-supported Discussions and Short Takes this year.\u00a0\u00a0 Find out more about the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival here \u00a0 Geometry […]<\/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":[32,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-as-a-lifeline","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469","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=3469"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3471,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3469\/revisions\/3471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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