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The Implantations (sycamore)<\/strong><\/p>\n Nobody tells them this, The Implantations (beech mast)<\/strong><\/p>\n Nobody dropped them here, The Implantations (cartridge paper)<\/strong><\/p>\n Nothing is so ready. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ian McEwen<\/strong>\u2019s pamphlet The Stammering Man<\/em> was a winner in the Templar competition 2010 and he was highly commended in the national poetry competition 2011. His first full collection will be published by Cinnamon Press in 2013. He is a member of the Magma poetry board. He lives in Bedford and organises the Ouse Muse open mic.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Implantations (sycamore) Nobody tells them this, nobody says it\u2019s time to uncurl the fat green clocksprings of their hearts and no one invited them to do it here, the order of it unexplained untaught, the hunt for light the root for damp, how it happens all at once synchronised and swimming […]<\/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-4069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069","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=4069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4071,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4069\/revisions\/4071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nnobody says
\nit\u2019s time to uncurl
\nthe fat green clocksprings
\nof their hearts and no one
\ninvited them to do it here,
\nthe order of it unexplained
\nuntaught, the hunt for light
\nthe root for damp,
\nhow it happens all at once
\nsynchronised and swimming up
\nthe purest gesture they can name
\nopening their cotyledon arms
\nblowing on so-pink-they\u2019re-artificial stems,
\nthey press into the unexpected air
\nnot knowing not to expect
\nnot knowing not to
\nnot knowing<\/p>\n
\nnobody put
\ntheir hooked and hungry
\neaks across the path and no one
\nasked their clicking tongues
\nfor gossip on each step,
\nor compelled the jostle
\nfor attention in their spikes:
\ntriangular or angular
\ndiscomforts to each other, each blind
\npercussion barren as the next.
\nA harsh nostalgia for the tightest
\nvowel their teeth can bite
\nrattling their vacant husks,
\nscolding us at every turn,
\nnot hearing
\nnot hearing themselves
\nnot hearing themselves hurt<\/p>\n
\nNothing spreads
\nitself so wide, so thick,
\nso deeper than the earth and fatter
\nthan the air, eager in each fibre
\nso to blot itself and suck
\ngive suck through all this fickle
\ncapillarity so to spot itself
\nwith any homing seed or smut
\nthat drifts in through the clouds,
\nthe thunderheads
\nof blood and falling in
\nso smally, small
\nas satan on his long long drop
\nagainst the parapets
\nof heaven.
\nNot waiting but not reaching up
\nnot waiting but not reaching
\nnot waiting but<\/p>\n