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Five photos: child in the garden<\/strong><\/p>\n 1.<\/p>\n Bonfire charcoal<\/p>\n In a jam jar of<\/p>\n Rainwater<\/p>\n With dandelion leaves:<\/p>\n Magic potion.<\/p>\n 2.<\/p>\n The hot dry smell of<\/p>\n Garden flints clashed<\/p>\n Together prehistorically;<\/p>\n Soft yellow brick powder<\/p>\n Falls from an old nail turned<\/p>\n In the house wall.<\/p>\n 3.<\/p>\n Overhead :<\/p>\n Lilies of the valley<\/p>\n With huge white bells,<\/p>\n Below:<\/p>\n Tank battle of armoured<\/p>\n Woodlice, grey-purple,<\/p>\n And an arching<\/p>\n Orange centipede.<\/p>\n 4.<\/p>\n Circular hollyhock seedheads<\/p>\n Peeled apart into<\/p>\n Small serrated hooks,<\/p>\n Vertical plantain seeds<\/p>\n Fountained off<\/p>\n With raking finger nails.<\/p>\n 5.<\/p>\n Do red ants hurt?<\/p>\n They stain the path<\/p>\n Where I stamped<\/p>\n On them. But now<\/p>\n I hear them screaming.<\/p>\n Ruth Aylett<\/strong> teaches computing at Heriot-Watt University. She is also a prize-winning poet and writer, whose work has appeared in New Writing Scotland; Doire Press, Textualities; Estuary – a confluence of Art and Poetry; Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em> and elsewhere.\u00a0 She has read as a Shore Poets New Poet and at many Inky Fingers events. Read more about her work here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five photos: child in the garden 1. Bonfire charcoal In a jam jar of Rainwater With dandelion leaves: Magic potion. 2. The hot dry smell of Garden flints clashed Together prehistorically; Soft yellow brick powder Falls from an old nail turned In the house wall. 3. Overhead : Lilies of the valley […]<\/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-6553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553","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=6553"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6553\/revisions\/6555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}