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Peeoy<\/strong><\/p>\n In a dictionary with scorched edges, Darkening the room, In a decade, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Helen Addy<\/strong> is from Forres in North East Scotland. She has been previously published in BUGGED, Snakeskin e-zine, What the Dickens?<\/em> and Shetland Libraries’ Bards in the Bog project. She is currently working towards a first pamphlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Peeoy In a dictionary with scorched edges, my daughter finds the Scottish word for homemade firework, a twisted cone of gunpowder, lit at the top. Darkening the room, and removing small animals, she fires the syllables into the air, whistling bursts of red and yellow, her laughter a cascading fountain, sparks fizzing […]<\/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-4649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649","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=4649"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4649\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmy daughter finds the Scottish word
\nfor homemade firework,
\na twisted cone of gunpowder,
\nlit at the top.<\/p>\n
\nand removing small animals,
\nshe fires the syllables into the air,
\nwhistling bursts of red and yellow,
\nher laughter a cascading fountain,
\nsparks fizzing on the furniture.<\/p>\n
\ndreaming of a guy to inflame,
\nher voice is still climbing,
\nringing the stars,
\ncolouring every dark out there.<\/p>\n