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This is exactly what I want<\/strong><\/p>\n This is exactly what I want: The history of snow fall <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ella Chappell<\/strong> recently graduated from the Creative Writing Masters in Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her work has appeared in various places including Elbow Room, Badrobot Poetry,<\/em> and 17 Poets<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 This poem is taken from her latest series ’99 poems in 99 days’, which can be followed on her blog <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is exactly what I want This is exactly what I want: (though I didn\u2019t know it) 5 inches of silence the recluse\u2019s delicacy a softing down cold and geometry fretworking into a slow lattice an excuse for feeling the creak of earth beneath you hydrangea heads shudder under caps of white. The history […]<\/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-5463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463","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=5463"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5466,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5463\/revisions\/5466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(though I didn\u2019t know it)
\n5 inches of silence
\nthe recluse\u2019s delicacy
\na softing down
\ncold and geometry fretworking
\ninto a slow lattice
\nan excuse for feeling
\nthe creak of earth
\nbeneath you
\nhydrangea heads shudder
\nunder caps of white.<\/p>\n
\nand snow melt
\nhere in the dimpling surrey hills
\ncan be navigated by
\nthe ancient smell of coal-driven steam
\nand the secret trickle of water through chalk
\nbubbling back up at a spring
\nheavy with minerals.
\nFat edible snails
\nwith cream white shells
\nare camouflaged now
\nand whether I\u2019m still thinking of you
\nstill still thinking
\nof you
\nor whether I\u2019m beating cheesecake
\nwith a wooden spoon
\nbeing snowed-in
\ninstructs time to be easy.<\/p>\n