{"id":4478,"date":"2013-05-13T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4478"},"modified":"2013-05-05T15:24:57","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T15:24:57","slug":"lucy-ingrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/lucy-ingrams\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucy Ingrams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Home furnishings<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sensing revelation on the fifth floor,<\/p>\n

she reaches \u2013 self-defensively \u2013<\/p>\n

for tools<\/p>\n

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and next, she is all pocket: the more combed<\/p>\n

the colder, while at her toes<\/p>\n

a little pool<\/p>\n

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of not-this, not-that flotsam grows (biros,<\/p>\n

chocolate, children\u2019s photos, strands of sample<\/p>\n

fourth-floor wools)<\/p>\n

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until she stands divested, swaying<\/p>\n

like a vertigant,<\/p>\n

nothing<\/p>\n

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between her and truth she\u2019s waited<\/p>\n

\u2013 oh, time cubed \u2013<\/p>\n

to spool,<\/p>\n

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missing her tape measure<\/p>\n

and every inch<\/p>\n

the holy fool.<\/p>\n

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*<\/p>\n

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Kneeling, she counts fourteen<\/p>\n

hand-spans across the horizon<\/p>\n

of a sofa (Elgar Small,<\/p>\n

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pumice), fingers kneading<\/p>\n

the truss. A passing<\/p>\n

pianist is struck<\/p>\n

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by the key<\/p>\n

of her attention; a child<\/p>\n

smiles back to smiles<\/p>\n

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that in the country<\/p>\n

of her face, lie dozened<\/p>\n

at all angles, while<\/p>\n

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unassailing sales assistants<\/p>\n

statue the far corners,<\/p>\n

like church saints.<\/p>\n

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*<\/p>\n

Near an Osterley Occasional,<\/p>\n

she gives way<\/p>\n

to laughter \u2013 a sobbing<\/p>\n

spindle of years, unwinding<\/p>\n

itself from story.<\/p>\n

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How much easier <\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0 and more difficult, <\/em>she thinks<\/p>\n

looking round, trying<\/p>\n

to see things just<\/p>\n

as they xanax online rx<\/a> are\u2026<\/p>\n

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Every wing<\/p>\n

chair and swan sofa<\/p>\n

stands waiting.<\/p>\n

I have only<\/em> to sit down <\/em><\/p>\n

and a silence will begin.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

*<\/p>\n

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When the floor manager finds her \u2013 in a Suffolk Sewn \u2013 she is floundering<\/p>\n

like a kelt. Behind her stream plot-lines of love-lies-bleeding, family tangling, beginnings
\nand endings she\u2019s attempted to alter, various subscriptions to cure or coddling. Ahead, a simple sea of careful, furnished rooms \u2026 an anchorite\u2019s grammar: I will sit by my sitting, lie <\/em><\/p>\n

by my lying and attend to the phrasing of gestures\u2014<\/em><\/p>\n

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*<\/p>\n

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She offers up<\/p>\n

her cheque-book<\/p>\n

and he takes it<\/p>\n

lightly, too young<\/p>\n

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to guess at<\/p>\n

all the waters<\/p>\n

that chop<\/p>\n

between them.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Ingrams<\/strong> has worked by day in gardens, schools, children’s book publishing, a theatre company and a bar –\u00a0 by evening she has had the luck to study poetry with Michael Donaghy, Liane Strauss and Philip Gross.<\/p>\n

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      Home furnishings     Sensing revelation on the fifth floor, she reaches \u2013 self-defensively \u2013 for tools   and next, she is all pocket: the more combed the colder, while at her toes a little pool   of not-this, not-that flotsam grows (biros, chocolate, children\u2019s photos, strands of sample fourth-floor wools)   […]<\/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-4478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478","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=4478"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4480,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4478\/revisions\/4480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}