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The Road to Vyborg<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n On the road to Vyborg<\/p>\n I try to count the dead<\/p>\n on my hands, but run out<\/p>\n of fingers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The road is dangerous<\/p>\n and this is Russia,<\/p>\n you say.<\/p>\n Over and over again.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n You took me,<\/p>\n from the smoke<\/p>\n to the white castle.<\/p>\n Where dogs<\/p>\n <\/p>\n half wolf<\/p>\n greet me like an old friend<\/p>\n and the cave hides a Sadko<\/p>\n turned to stone with age.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n At your Dacha you have a bear<\/p>\n wrestled and killed<\/p>\n in Murmansk.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And nothing is a mystery<\/p>\n as we drink tea and eat biscuits.<\/p>\n I try to reconcile what I have seen<\/p>\n with your tea party.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Julie Egdell<\/strong> is a writer from Newcastle Upon Tyne with an MA in Creative Writing. She has been published in The Break Out Anthology, Dreamcatcher, The Wilds Anthology, The Cadaverine<\/em> and many more. To find out more visit http:\/\/theadventuresofpenelopenewcastle.weebly.com\/ The Road to Vyborg On the road to Vyborg I try to count the dead on my hands, but run out of fingers. The road is dangerous and this is Russia, you say. Over and over again. You took me, from the smoke to the white castle. Where dogs […]<\/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-5664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664","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=5664"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5664\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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