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Focus is not distracted through their lens, Your tears become a magnifying glass; The subject explodes, dominates your thought The illuminate\u2019s picture\u2019s set in stone <\/p>\n Sue Spiers<\/strong> started a creative writing course with the Open University which got out of hand and became a BA in Literature in 2012. \u00a0She lives in chaos with a teenager and a third-time-lucky husband.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Magnificat of Tears Your tears wash away damaging matter. They\u2019re ocean compared to moist towelette, a swim in the sea rather than paddling; intensifiers of experience. Focus is not distracted through their lens, each drop\u2019s centre is a swelling crystal. Refraction bends edges of light to dim everything but excruciation. Your tears […]<\/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-5297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297","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=5297"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5299,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5297\/revisions\/5299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/em><\/strong>The Magnificat of Tears
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\nYour tears wash away damaging matter.
\nThey\u2019re ocean compared to moist towelette,
\na swim in the sea rather than paddling;
\nintensifiers of experience.<\/p>\n
\neach drop\u2019s centre is a swelling crystal.
\nRefraction bends edges of light to dim
\neverything but excruciation.<\/p>\n
\nthey sear through living tissue, burn away
\nthe twitching insect limbs to clarify,
\nlet you inspect beneath the carapace.<\/p>\n
\nHer aspects augmented, larger than life
\nHer faults outside the image \u2013 diminish –
\nbequeath a magnificent eulogy.<\/p>\n
\npreservation of memory concrete
\nsaved for all time, exquisite in your mind.
\nYour tears subside. \u00a0\u00a0They can be wiped dry.<\/p>\n