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Curiosity<\/strong><\/p>\n Driven by the Iago voice in your head Brandishing his billet doux like lipstick on a collar, Compelled by friends choric\u2019 \u00a0\u2018But he lied\u2019, You send his belongings packing to the shed, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fiona Sinclair<\/strong> reviews for numerous poetry magazines including IS&T<\/em> and Happenstance<\/em>. She is\u00a0 the editor of the online poetry magazine Message in a Bottle<\/a>.<\/em> Hew second pamphlet A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em> <\/a>is out now<\/a> from Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Curiosity Driven by the Iago voice in your head you let yourself into his Google account rifle through in box, trash, spam\u2026 until you find an email that scorches your fingers. Brandishing his billet doux like lipstick on a collar, Your \u2018Can\u2019t you see how I feel?\u2019 Is met with a bewildered child\u2019s […]<\/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-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6338,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions\/6338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nyou let yourself into his Google account
\nrifle through in box, trash, spam\u2026
\nuntil you find an email that scorches your fingers.<\/p>\n
\nYour \u2018Can\u2019t you see how I feel?\u2019
\nIs met with a bewildered child\u2019s gaze
\n\u2018They are just throw away lines that mean nothing\u2019\u2019.
\nSo he talks you round with \u2018the only woman for me\u2019\u2026
\nbut his good night email becomes \u2018Blah, blah, blah\u2019
\nthat is skim read then trashed.<\/p>\n
\nyou unlock his phone with fumbling fingers .
\nOne contact blazes like a red neon sign
\npointing to a website buy accutane 20mg<\/a> that punches you in the face.<\/p>\n
\nbut his email, \u2018I have purged my past for you\u2019
\ngets his foot back in the door of your life.
\nStill, watching TV, teaching grammar, buying clothes-
\nYou \u00a0self- harm by envisaging:
\nhis Vauxhall joining other cars in a dark layby,
\nNSA stilettos tripping up to his flat,
\nhim meeting a broadminded couple for coffee\u2026.<\/p>\n