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Two Aprons<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n after Arshile Gorky<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have my limitations, I can only paint.<\/p>\n Each silver tube has its own sound,<\/p>\n its own idea of life and how it might be lived.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Here\u2019s the yellow of Nan\u2019s Portuguese pinny,<\/p>\n I heard its cockcrow from the drawer \u2013<\/p>\n and me, not even of the generation that wears aprons,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n though I\u2019m wearing one now, its white cottons<\/p>\n unravelling like the lines of this painting.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I release the bird from the stuffy drawer,<\/p>\n its wattle and plumage crushed,<\/p>\n yet the colours still sing to the morning.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n While I search for clues to Nan\u2019s journeys,<\/p>\n her many tongues jumble in my apron\u2019s pockets,<\/p>\n and this cockerel will star on the canvas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Katrina Naomi<\/strong> is completing a PhD in creative writing at Goldsmiths with a focus on violence in poetry. Her work has appeared in The TLS, Poetry Review<\/em> and The Spectator<\/em>. She lives in south London and is originally from Margate. www.katrinanaomi.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two Aprons \u00a0 after Arshile Gorky I have my limitations, I can only paint. Each silver tube has its own sound, its own idea of life and how it might be lived. Here\u2019s the yellow of Nan\u2019s Portuguese pinny, I heard its cockcrow from the drawer \u2013 and me, not even […]<\/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-6268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268","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=6268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6269,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6268\/revisions\/6269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}