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Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n We are waiting for a Christmas that never came,<\/em><\/p>\n each species a friend of a friend of some needle-hue.<\/p>\n All the years, heights and postures are present<\/p>\n like children in a school that no child ever leaves.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Each species a friend of a friend of some needle-hue:<\/p>\n those adolescent spruces prickle with boredom<\/p>\n like children in a school that no child ever leaves.<\/p>\n The infant firs sing to themselves in the snow.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The prefect pines, sky-high, peer down unmoved.<\/p>\n Those adolescent spruces prickle with boredom;<\/p>\n the infant firs sing to themselves in the snow.<\/p>\n We speak through the wind and only then in murmurs;<\/p>\n <\/p>\n stretch our limbs into the wind to catch at birds.<\/p>\n The prefect pines, sky-high, peer down unmoved<\/p>\n bartering a bullfinch song for a goldfinch chime.<\/p>\n We speak through the wind and only then in murmurs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By dusk we are whispers and secret playtime rhymes.<\/p>\n We stretch our limbs into the wind and catch at birds.<\/p>\n Our tree rings are school bells that peal in December<\/p>\n bartering a bullfinch song for a goldfinch chime.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By dusk we are whispers and secret playtime rhymes.<\/p>\n All the years, heights and postures are present.<\/p>\n Our tree rings are school bells that peal for December.<\/p>\n We are waiting for a Christmas that will never come.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David Morley<\/strong>\u2019s recently published Enchantment<\/em> (Carcanet), a Sunday Telegraph<\/em> Book of the Year chosen by Jonathan Bate. The Invisible Kings<\/em> was a PBS Recommendation and TLS<\/em> Book of the Year chosen by Les Murray.\u00a0The Gypsy and the Poet<\/em> is due from Carcanet in 2013 followed by New and Selected Poems<\/em> in 2014. He writes regularly for The Guardian <\/em>and Poetry Review<\/em>. <\/em>He wrote The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing <\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0 co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Creative Writing<\/em>. He teaches at Warwick University where is Professor of Writing. www.davidmorley.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n ‘Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation’ appeared in Enchantment<\/em>, Carcanet Press, 2010.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Abandoned Christmas Tree Plantation We are waiting for a Christmas that never came, each species a friend of a friend of some needle-hue. All the years, heights and postures are present like children in a school that no child ever leaves. Each species a friend of a friend of some needle-hue: those […]<\/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":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771","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=3771"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23942,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3771\/revisions\/23942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}