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O Marks The Spot<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I press my porcelain skin against the bath,<\/p>\n and turn the limescale tap, lie back<\/p>\n the tide rises and my buttocks slip,<\/p>\n glide upon the film and slide,<\/p>\n from smooth perfect hardness of your face.<\/p>\n It slips, a slap, my hips sag<\/p>\n as bleached skin scalds, my pelvis<\/p>\n jags through waves. Like limestone stacks eroded<\/p>\n to a rock-pool, my diaphragm depresses<\/p>\n lifts then strands the tide<\/p>\n falls, two tributaries whirl across my stomach;<\/p>\n meandering violent words<\/p>\n collide, into\u00a0 a sinkhole abandoned<\/p>\n where a line of moss grows up<\/p>\n into the O, marks the spot where<\/p>\n purple petrol gold floats.<\/p>\n The scar of appendectomy that holds<\/p>\n a flammable puddle of dissolved<\/p>\n acid fumes, hydrochloric vented plumes<\/p>\n I breathe, fire.<\/p>\n I breathe, fire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Matthew Bevington<\/strong> is an English student at Ruskin College Oxford studying Creative Writing & Critical Practice. He also writes as a music journalist and his poetry is due to be published on Eunoia Review.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" O Marks The Spot I press my porcelain skin against the bath, and turn the limescale tap, lie back the tide rises and my buttocks slip, glide upon the film and slide, from smooth perfect hardness of your face. It slips, a slap, my hips sag as bleached skin scalds, my […]<\/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-4938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938","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=4938"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4940,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4938\/revisions\/4940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}