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Elmira Sweetheart \u2014<\/strong><\/p>\n On my slow twigs, the deadwood sheets of dry bark like torn pages<\/p>\n from books; I snap in half, to make to start raging fires, every help keep my old lovers in rows, next to the cook stove to go crackle, stay hot E.E. Nobbs<\/strong> lives in Prince Edward Island, Canada. She is tickled pink to have received honourary mention in the 2012 Single Poem Category (The New Writer). Follow her at http:\/\/ellyfromearth.wordpress.com\/<\/a><\/span> \u00a0. Twitter ID @ellyfromearth <https:\/\/twitter.com\/ellyfromearth<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Elmira Sweetheart \u2014 On my slow morning walks I gather up twigs, the deadwood from hedges and sheets of dry bark from rotted trees; they look like torn pages from books; I snap fallen branches in half, to make excellent kindling to start raging fires, every evening, this winter; they will help keep […]<\/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-4353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353","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=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4355,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmorning walks
\nI gather up<\/p>\n
\nfrom hedges and<\/p>\n
\nfrom rotted trees; they look<\/p>\n
\nfallen branches<\/p>\n
\nexcellent kindling<\/p>\n
\nevening, this winter; they will<\/p>\n
\nall stacked\u00a0now, neatly<\/p>\n
\nin the kitchen,<\/p>\n
\nfor hours.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/span> Note: The ‘Sweetheart’ is a modern, high-efficiency, airtight wood-burning cook stove with \u201clustrous nickel trim\u201d in the style of some late 19th century stoves \u2013 manufactured by the Elmira Stove Works, Canada, back in the 1980s; now by Heartland, an American company.<\/p>\n