{"id":4804,"date":"2013-06-26T09:00:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T09:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=4804"},"modified":"2013-06-25T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T09:17:32","slug":"rowena-warwick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/rowena-warwick\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowena Warwick"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Flowers for the Meeting<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The chairwoman, glamorous<\/p>\n

in purple with military buttons,<\/p>\n

has wings of buttermilk dahlias.<\/p>\n

On the mantle shelf, a hat<\/p>\n

of baby pink roses, three feet wide, waits<\/p>\n

for her perfect vase of brown hair.<\/p>\n

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Her spectacles on the tip<\/p>\n

of her nose, she peers<\/p>\n

to take in the assembled men,<\/p>\n

each one overwhelmed by the need<\/p>\n

to share their wisdom,<\/p>\n

their accumulated knowledge,<\/p>\n

their opinions and those stolen<\/p>\n

from others, more interesting.<\/p>\n

A class of schoolboys, hands raised,<\/p>\n

jittering to impress.<\/p>\n

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Then it\u2019s over,<\/p>\n

the coffee drunk,<\/p>\n

the biscuits passed, chewed, swallowed.<\/p>\n

She rises,<\/p>\n

balances her rose hat,<\/p>\n

ripples her dahlia wings.<\/p>\n

She flys<\/p>\n

through empty windows.<\/p>\n

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Rowena Warwick<\/strong> lives in Oxfordshire with her husband, her westie and her sons. When not writing she works for the health service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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