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Celebrity<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Lips part and we see the dark<\/p>\n whole of your mouth, empty<\/p>\n and ivory framed.<\/p>\n Vacant-sign eyes , cogs lie static<\/p>\n behind your sugar skull.<\/p>\n Yet we try like children<\/p>\n on a pier, to hook a prize<\/p>\n with our claws.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Stripping flesh from your bones<\/p>\n we pin it to ourselves, sew<\/p>\n your nerves to our sleeves.<\/p>\n Hunt your scent then mask<\/p>\n our bodies with it.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Claire Walker<\/strong>‘s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in various print and online publications including Ink Sweat and Tears, Hearing Voices, Kumquat Poetry <\/em>and Emerge Literary Journal.<\/em>\u00a0 In June 2013 she won third place in the 2013\/2014 Worcestershire Poet Laureate Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrity Lips part and we see the dark whole of your mouth, empty and ivory framed. Vacant-sign eyes , cogs lie static behind your sugar skull. Yet we try like children on a pier, to hook a prize with our claws. Stripping flesh from your bones we pin it to ourselves, […]<\/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-6496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496","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=6496"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6498,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6496\/revisions\/6498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}