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Five Haiku<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n summer air thickens<\/p>\n two fruit bats make love<\/p>\n under the streetlight<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n numb about love<\/p>\n the honeybee<\/p>\n rejects its first flower<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n first spider on the moon –<\/p>\n he on my yellow<\/p>\n bathroom wall<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Roman arch –<\/p>\n an old beggar sits<\/p>\n frowning at girls<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ker-runch<\/p>\n all the snails of the universe<\/p>\n on their way out<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richard Thomas<\/strong> is a 26 year old poet living in Plymouth. His work is published in journals internationally, he was shortlisted for the National Poetry Competition 2011 and he is the editor of the poetry e-zine Symmetry Pebbles<\/em><\/a>. Richard’s debut collection of poetry The Strangest Thankyou<\/em><\/a> is out now through Cultured Llama.\u00a0 This is his website.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five Haiku summer air thickens two fruit bats make love under the streetlight numb about love the honeybee rejects its first flower first spider on the moon – he on my yellow bathroom wall Roman arch – an old beggar sits frowning at girls ker-runch […]<\/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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-haibun-tanka-haiku-haiga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809","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=4809"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24030,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4809\/revisions\/24030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}