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Signs<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When I set out on my journey<\/p>\n I shall leave home early.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I shall wear shoes that breathe slowly;<\/p>\n button up my best coat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n My scarf will wrap itself around me,<\/p>\n brushing my cheek like a newborn hand<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and I shall need a bag – the one<\/p>\n that smells of her favourite perfume.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A simple sign<\/p>\n nailed to a wooden post.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n See her alight with only the ghost<\/p>\n of a well dressed smile.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n This is the place<\/p>\n where dandelion clocks stand still.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Catherine Graham<\/strong> lives in Newcastle upon Tyne. She is a Northern Voices Poetry Award winner. Catherine’s work has been published in magazines and anthologies in the UK and Ireland as well as online. Catherine’s chapbook Signs<\/em> (ID on Tyne Press) was in the Poetry Kit top five recommended books for 2011, her first full collection Things I Will Put In My Mother’s Pocket<\/em> is due out Spring 2013 with Indigo Dreams Publishing www.indigodreams.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Signs When I set out on my journey I shall leave home early. I shall wear shoes that breathe slowly; button up my best coat. My scarf will wrap itself around me, brushing my cheek like a newborn hand and I shall need a bag – the one that smells […]<\/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-4032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032","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=4032"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4034,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4032\/revisions\/4034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}