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Dreaming teacher<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In the hollow of the night you leap<\/p>\n from your bed and slip through the patio<\/p>\n doors into your garden. Slim legged<\/p>\n and shyly bowed head, you graze \u2013<\/p>\n <\/p>\n not the woman sleek in black<\/p>\n who teeters through your working day<\/p>\n but a deer with fawn speckled flanks<\/p>\n and trim feet, ballerina light, across<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the silvered lawn. Stars<\/p>\n scatter like cigarette sparks<\/p>\n and you breathe the night air, raising<\/p>\n your flared nose to the sky<\/p>\n <\/p>\n until a shadow wakes from the twisted<\/p>\n boughs of trees,\u00a0 pours his breath<\/p>\n and shakes his mane, unflinching light,<\/p>\n between the walls, across the lawn,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n leaving prints which mimic the shape<\/p>\n of flowers as he bounds towards you \u2013<\/p>\n just catching your shoulder<\/p>\n with a fine pencil line of red.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n RCJ Allan<\/strong> writes poetry in the spaces she finds between teaching and other entanglements. She is a Northerner who has wandered South; her work has been published in Other Poetry, Obsessed with Pipework, Orbis<\/em> and Pennine Platform<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dreaming teacher In the hollow of the night you leap from your bed and slip through the patio doors into your garden. Slim legged and shyly bowed head, you graze \u2013 not the woman sleek in black who teeters through your working day but a deer with fawn speckled flanks […]<\/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-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","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=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6830,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}