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Growing Like a<\/strong><\/p>\n He spins in wide circles Before this, I\u2019d said: He said to stop saying he\u2019s growing And that was when So now he spins.<\/p>\n I say: No sweetheart, no, it\u2019s He stops, and looks at me.<\/p>\n I say: you couldn\u2019t be Then he smiles.<\/p>\n (smiles: bright, common, I love you too, Mum.<\/p>\n My son hugs me<\/p>\n (hugs: rare, special, and I must reconsider <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kate Garrett<\/strong> grew up in Ohio, but has lived in the UK since 1999. Her poetry and flash fiction have been published online and in print. She lives in Sheffield, where she studies Creative Writing at Sheffield Hallam University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Growing Like a He spins in wide circles to shake the surging neurons in his head. Before this, I\u2019d said: You\u2019re growing like a weed! He said to stop saying he\u2019s growing like a weed, he said he\u2019s not like a weed at all. He said weeds are bad, unwanted. And that was […]<\/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-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","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=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5238,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions\/5238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nto shake the surging
\nneurons in his head.<\/p>\n
\nYou\u2019re growing like a weed!<\/p>\n
\nlike a weed, he said
\nhe\u2019s not like a weed at all.
\nHe said weeds are bad, unwanted.<\/p>\n
\nmy son started spinning.<\/p>\n
\nbecause weeds grow fast. And not
\nall weeds are bad: nettle tea,
\ndandelion wine, and clover smells
\nsweet in late summer sunshine.<\/p>\n
\nmore wanted. You\u2019re sweet
\nlike clover blossoms, and make
\nme feel lucky like a clover
\nwith four leaves, too.<\/p>\n
\nbut suddenly beautiful,
\nlike the first dandelion
\nheads in May)<\/p>\n
\nalso like four leaf clovers)<\/p>\n
\nmy use of simile and metaphor.<\/p>\n