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9H Pencil To keep an eye A second turn A third turn The rousing blade The last twist <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gareth Writer-Davies<\/strong>, gardener living in Letchworth. Over last couple of years, after a girlfriend told him to get serious, he has been widely published. In 2012 shortlisted for Erbacce Prize and Highly Commended for Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 9H Pencil In the first turn of the stubby little pencil sharpener is a reminder for next door To keep an eye out for a missing cat and can they water the tomato plants A second turn and the paper thin shaving rolls away A third turn and there’s a new word that […]<\/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-4228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228","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=4228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4230,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4228\/revisions\/4230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>
\nIn the first turn
\nof the stubby little pencil sharpener
\nis a reminder for next door<\/p>\n
\nout for a missing cat
\nand can they water the tomato plants<\/p>\n
\nand the paper thin shaving
\nrolls away<\/p>\n
\nand there’s a new word
\nthat would beat all known scores<\/p>\n
\nis getting
\nto the point of the matter<\/p>\n
\nis a sealed bond
\ncontaining all that you need to know<\/p>\n