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After Watching Dante\u2019s Peak<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n My mother unpacked her bags in the bland guest cabin the<\/p>\n Orphanage maintained for guest visits. She still had her<\/p>\n Thespian\u2019s sense of drama, wrinkling her nose at that<\/p>\n Harsh antiseptic scent hotels cover with<\/p>\n Evergreen air freshener. No STI\u2019s here. A<\/p>\n Required lie. We went to see a film: Pierce Brosnan,<\/p>\n I recall, fought a volcano. We had ice-cream. I<\/p>\n Shivered in the doctor\u2019s office, after, naked on that<\/p>\n Silver-tone table while a private gyno spread me with<\/p>\n That pre-warmed speculum. My social worker wanted no<\/p>\n Record from a doctor that she did not own. \u2018You<\/p>\n Overweening bitch.\u2019 My mother never flinched at a bug,<\/p>\n Never gave in when my father said he couldn\u2019t hold with<\/p>\n Giving me permission to come home. She\u2019d see about that.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bethany W Pope<\/strong> is an\u00a0award\u00a0winning\u00a0author of the LBA, and a finalist for the Faulkner-Wisdom\u00a0Awards. She was a runner up for the Cinnamon Press Novel Competition. She received her PhD from Aberystwyth University\u2019s Creative Writing program.\u00a0 Her first poetry collection,\u00a0A Radiance<\/em>\u00a0was published by Cultured Llama Press\u00a0 and her second collection,\u00a0Crown of Thorns,<\/em>\u00a0was published by Oneiros Books last year.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After Watching Dante\u2019s Peak My mother unpacked her bags in the bland guest cabin the Orphanage maintained for guest visits. She still had her Thespian\u2019s sense of drama, wrinkling her nose at that Harsh antiseptic scent hotels cover with Evergreen air freshener. No STI\u2019s here. A Required lie. We went to see […]<\/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-6594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594","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=6594"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6596,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6594\/revisions\/6596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}