{"id":407,"date":"2011-10-13T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=407"},"modified":"2011-10-13T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-10-13T11:00:00","slug":"redundancy-by-rebecca-goss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/redundancy-by-rebecca-goss\/","title":{"rendered":"'Redundancy' by Rebecca Goss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Redundancy<\/span>

It left you struggling to sleep, eat, <\/span>
touch me like you used to.<\/span>

A night class brought you back.<\/span>
There, you jabbed at a plane; <\/span>

its thick, ejected coils looping <\/span>
at your wrist.  Soon, a paper thin <\/span>

shaving could quiver in your palm, <\/span>
evidence of a new skill.  Tools <\/span>

spawned tools and we considered <\/span>
that gap in the garden, paced <\/span>

its perimeter, mugs of tea cooling <\/span>
in our hands.  The workshop nestles <\/span>

in its corner, honeysuckle licks the roof <\/span>
and from a window I watch you walk inside, <\/span>

know you are bent at the bench, able <\/span>
and making, sawdust coating you like down.<\/span>




*Rebecca Goss<\/span>'s first collection, <\/span>The Anatomy of Structures<\/span>  was published by Flambard Press in 2010.  A poem from it was Highly Commended in The Forward Prize, 2010. Find out more <\/span>here<\/a>


A version of 'Redundancy'  first published in Magma, 2010<\/span>
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RedundancyIt left you struggling to sleep, eat, touch me like you used to.A night class brought you back.There, you jabbed at a plane; its thick, ejected coils looping at your wrist.  Soon, a paper thin shaving could quiver in your palm, evidence of a new skill.  Tools spawned tools and we considered that gap in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}