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Too Much Sky<\/strong><\/p>\n We trudge through air like setting cement, to the silk screen of leaves at our feet. from these few trees, channelling across I must unlearn the fells, the drag of cloud Flattened under a fish-eyed sky, our words of heron is all the perpendicular we have <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jessica Penrose<\/strong> is learning to love the big skies of Cambridgeshire having moved south from the wilds of Yorkshire. Her publications include poems in The Rialto, Staple, Orbis<\/em> and Mslexia<\/em>, and she is working towards her first pamphlet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Too Much Sky We trudge through air like setting cement, each boot-print a muddy hallmark to the silk screen of leaves at our feet. The river drives out straight from these few trees, channelling across a landscape unwilling to rise above itself. I must unlearn the fells, the drag of cloud over moorland, […]<\/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-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","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=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6833,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\neach boot-print a muddy hallmark<\/p>\n
\nThe river drives out straight<\/p>\n
\na landscape unwilling to rise above itself.<\/p>\n
\nover moorland, the swollen fever of a river in spate.<\/p>\n
\nare stretched thin as tin plate; a steel upright<\/p>\n
\nuntil that too is gone, tilting on pterodactyl wings.<\/p>\n