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Ghost<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n That Autumn he returned<\/p>\n to clear the house,<\/p>\n but found it full<\/p>\n of immovable things.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n His sister asleep in her cot.<\/p>\n His father raking cinders in the grate.<\/p>\n His mother clattering like cutlery<\/p>\n in the kitchen.<\/p>\n His long-dead dog barking at birds<\/p>\n in the back-yard.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Outside, the paint-peeled wall<\/p>\n looked new,<\/p>\n the out-house re-built,<\/p>\n its broken windows re-forged by sunlight.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But he didn\u2019t feel its warmth,<\/p>\n and it couldn\u2019t find enough of him<\/p>\n to make a shadow from.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n David J. Costello<\/strong> lives in Wallasey, Merseyside. He is a member of Chester Poets and North West Poets. David has been widely published and won the 2011 Welsh International Poetry Competition. His first collection\u00a0Human Engineering<\/em>, was recently published by Thynks Publishing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ghost That Autumn he returned to clear the house, but found it full of immovable things. His sister asleep in her cot. His father raking cinders in the grate. His mother clattering like cutlery in the kitchen. His long-dead dog barking at birds in the back-yard. Outside, the paint-peeled […]<\/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-6890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890","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=6890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6893,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6890\/revisions\/6893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}