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Dentist<\/strong><\/p>\n Lying on a vinyl chair, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yuko Minamikawa Adams<\/strong> grew up in Japan and now lives in Hertfordshire. She writes poetry in Japanese and English, and her poems have appeared in UK, US and Japanese magazines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dentist Lying on a vinyl chair, I listen to music. The melody depicts a forest in this sanitized room. While I\u2019m opening my mouth, a squirrel is crunching on an acorn, leaves falling into a puddle. When the anaesthetic starts taking effect, a woodpecker perches on my lips and taps at my […]<\/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-6489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489","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=6489"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6489\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nI listen to music.
\nThe melody depicts a forest
\nin this sanitized room.
\nWhile I\u2019m opening my mouth,
\na squirrel is crunching on an acorn,
\nleaves falling into a puddle.
\nWhen the anaesthetic starts taking effect,
\na woodpecker perches on my lips
\nand taps at my tooth.<\/p>\n