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Biography<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n When mum was a girl she had no shoes:<\/p>\n sprinting through stubble bloodied her toes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A playground Howitzer tested the class:<\/p>\n Answer this question \u2013 the answer is Yes.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Persona non grata, sister Gretel,<\/p>\n turned informer to the Deutscher M\u00e4del.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Her teacher was stubborn, her teacher was brave:<\/p>\n Strangers with rifles drove him away.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Blackout watched her off the wharf:<\/p>\n a Luftwaffenhelfer heard the splash.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The displaced fled as the train brakes shrieked:<\/p>\n a Spitfire straffed \u2013 she hid under her seat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brother-in-law whistling home on his bike:<\/p>\n the partisan\u2019s piano wire tuned his neck.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sawdust knudel and sawdust wurst<\/p>\n unless employed in the British mess.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Where is a man with black hair,<\/p>\n those panda-black sockets, that fear?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell me a story that closes in sleep<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The gas fire stiffles; photographs weep.<\/p>\n Tell me, Oh tell me a story that closes with sleep.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Arthur Haswell<\/strong> is of Austrian\/Scottish descent. His poetry has been published variously, recently in The North, Iota<\/em>, and Iron\u2019s Pieces From Eight<\/em> anthology. He graduated from Northumbria University’s <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Biography When mum was a girl she had no shoes: sprinting through stubble bloodied her toes. Tell me a story that closes in sleep A playground Howitzer tested the class: Answer this question \u2013 the answer is Yes. Tell me a story that closes in sleep […]<\/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-6485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485","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=6485"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6487,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6485\/revisions\/6487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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