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Reverse Aubade<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next you\u2019ll be saying the effect<\/p>\n of rain-flow on a house is our own<\/p>\n fluidity, those unheard percolations.<\/p>\n But the old gods weren\u2019t stupid.<\/p>\n If my body\u2019s a temple or whatever,<\/p>\n no light at the door reaches the relics.<\/p>\n The new shit makes martyrs of us all.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At the alarm, as your struthious<\/p>\n lashes kick in sleep, swatting in vain<\/p>\n at another girl\u2019s name on my arm,<\/p>\n it\u2019s all I can do not to reach out<\/p>\n for the nail-scissors and bring you<\/p>\n back among mortals, where no one<\/p>\n really wants to hear about your dream.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When you crawled in from another<\/p>\n graveyard at the coalface and mentioned<\/p>\n Bin Laden died, the name rang a bell,<\/p>\n but I couldn\u2019t think what. I assumed<\/p>\n you\u2019d take care of it. If you died,<\/p>\n I\u2019d annoy everybody with my grief.<\/p>\n You\u2019d be like the love of my life.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n JT Welsch<\/strong> lectures in creative writing and literature at York St John University. His poems have appeared in Boston Review, Stand, Manchester Review, Cake, <\/em>and the pamphlets, Orchids<\/em> (Salt 2010), Orchestra & Chorus<\/em> (Holdfire 2012), and Waterloo<\/em> <\/a>(Like This 2012).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Reverse Aubade Next you\u2019ll be saying the effect of rain-flow on a house is our own fluidity, those unheard percolations. But the old gods weren\u2019t stupid. If my body\u2019s a temple or whatever, no light at the door reaches the relics. The new shit makes martyrs of us all. At […]<\/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-3637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637","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=3637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3639,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3637\/revisions\/3639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}