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Coronation Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n Suddenly, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fiona Sinclair<\/strong> reviews for numerous poetry magazines including IS&T<\/em> and Happenstance<\/em>. She is\u00a0 the editor of the online poetry magazine Message in a Bottle<\/a>.<\/em> Hew second pamphlet A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em> <\/a>is out now<\/a> from Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coronation Ball Suddenly, every girl is drawn by the DJ\u2019s pied piper tunes. Since the few men present are eunuched by age they do not tease with Burlesque moves but dance a contemporary quadrille. Thirty princesses representing\u00a0 Sheppey and\u00a0 Margate like cropped photos on a misleading tourist brochure, conveyed by mini buses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-4969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969","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=4969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4969\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nevery girl is drawn by the DJ\u2019s pied piper tunes.
\nSince the few men present are eunuched by age
\nthey do not tease with Burlesque moves
\nbut dance a contemporary quadrille.
\nThirty princesses representing\u00a0 Sheppey
\nand\u00a0 Margate like cropped photos
\non a misleading tourist brochure,
\nconveyed by mini buses to this corrugated hall
\nto witness another coronation.
\nBikini clad contestants bold as Bond girls
\nreplaced now by 14 year olds in bridesmaids frocks
\nstammering out year 9 options,
\nnot knowing where to put their hands.
\nA few mums squeeze into Top Shop dresses,
\nmount 6 inch stilettos and trespass on the dance floor,
\nfrowning over steps obscure as teenage slang, as they
\nteeter behind daughters who have grown into their shoes.<\/p>\n