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Chest of Drawers<\/strong><\/p>\n She speaks to the postman frequently, Her husband doesn\u2019t mind and neither The couple has a modest bee colony; We are infertile, she tells the postman The bees help us heal, she says with a thin- They say it\u2019s going to be a bad winter this year, Yes, the husband says, his voice aimed steadily <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Christina Thatcher<\/strong> is an American graduate of the Teaching and Practice of Creative Writing MA program at Cardiff University. She runs creative writing workshops for at-risk students and vulnerable community members across the Valleys. Her work has recently been published in The London Magazine<\/em>, Neon Literary Magazine<\/em>, and The Journal of Compressed Creative Arts<\/em>, among others, and is forthcoming in Dream Catcher Magazine<\/em>. To learn more about her work please visit her website: https:\/\/collectingwords.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span> or follow her on Twitter @writetoempower.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chest of Drawers She speaks to the postman frequently, gives him small jars of cloudy honey at Christmas and invites him in on rainy days. Her husband doesn\u2019t mind and neither does the postman, he appreciates the warmth, the company. The couple has a modest bee colony; two deep hives made from a […]<\/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-4239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239","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=4239"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4239\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ngives him small jars of cloudy honey at Christmas
\nand invites him in on rainy days.<\/p>\n
\ndoes the postman, he appreciates
\nthe warmth, the company.<\/p>\n
\ntwo deep hives made from a small chest
\nof brightly colored drawers. It is clear
\nthey are not beekeepers by trade.<\/p>\n
\nover tea.<\/p>\n
\nlipped smile, while her husband nods slowly,
\nstaring into his mug.<\/p>\n
\nharsh and snowy with lots of ice,
\nthe postman responds.<\/p>\n
\ntowards the table. We may not have any more
\nhoney for you this Christmas.<\/p>\n