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<\/strong>Say not, let there be light, but darkness visible. <\/em>William Hazlitt Though most of the time, But occasionally, her words And then there\u2019s: And I feel like the bird Or the spring workmen <\/p>\n Tristan Moss<\/strong> lives in Sheffield where he works as an English language teacher. He has had poems published in Magma, Obsessed with Pipework, Snakeskin, The Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Word Riot, Elimae<\/em> and Alba<\/em>. He has also just had a pamphlet published by Lapwing publication (Belfast) entitled Disclaimer<\/em>. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Office Politics Say not, let there be light, but darkness visible. William Hazlitt She knows that those who don\u2019t figure much on others\u2019 maps, are more easily defined than those who are like cities, where lapses can be subsumed. Though most of the time, She\u2019s as dishonest as a sundial. But occasionally, her […]<\/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-6328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328","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=6328"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6331,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6328\/revisions\/6331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOffice Politics<\/p>\n
\n
\n<\/em>She knows that those
\nwho don\u2019t figure much
\non others\u2019 maps,
\nare more easily defined
\nthan those who are like cities,
\nwhere lapses can be subsumed.<\/p>\n
\nShe\u2019s as dishonest as a sundial.<\/p>\n
\nare a spade
\nsliding through dark soil,
\nhitting stone.<\/p>\n
\nCould I just ask your opinion on something?
\nand she tells me about a \u2018situation\u2019
\ninvolving her and an \u2018unnamed\u2019 person.
\nAnd I feel respected
\nthat she has trusted me<\/em>
\nand can\u2019t help but sympathise
\nthe way she puts it
\nbut know that this person
\ncould easily have been me.<\/p>\n
\nthat has flown through a half-open window.<\/p>\n
\nclosing up another road,
\nto tarmac over
\nthe cobbles showing through.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n