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Toad Patrol<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Crossing the road is imminent.<\/p>\n The moon is high \u2013<\/p>\n The lake is still<\/p>\n And the blob-a-gobs jiggle<\/p>\n and mulch inside and all thoughts<\/p>\n are fat with \u2018Pop\u2019<\/p>\n And my back it pipes with nuptial<\/p>\n clamp \u2013 that once I loved \u2013<\/p>\n but now I carry<\/p>\n So it\u2019s time to face<\/p>\n the tarmac<\/p>\n again \u2013 to cross<\/p>\n my toes and gloss my warts<\/p>\n To trust<\/p>\n in the abundance of buckets<\/p>\n and their fluorescent<\/p>\n rain-zippered<\/p>\n Gods.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nikki Claire Grant<\/strong> grew up in Kent surrounded by a menagerie of beasts. She likes rhubarb and roast parsnips and rabbits (but not to eat!). Her poems have been published in the small press and have also been aired in performance. www.dailymice.co.uk Toad Patrol Crossing the road is imminent. The moon is high \u2013 The lake is still And the blob-a-gobs jiggle and mulch inside and all thoughts are fat with \u2018Pop\u2019 And my back it pipes with nuptial clamp \u2013 that once I loved \u2013 but now I carry So it\u2019s time to […]<\/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-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","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=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3949,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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