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Crystal Ball<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n She polishes her crystal ball with Windolene<\/p>\n until it gleams.\u00a0 A client has asked her<\/p>\n about someone – is he earthside or airside?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n She guides her hands over the cobalt-blue surface.<\/p>\n Her long fingers laden with black nail varnish<\/p>\n explore like traffic grids on an inner-city map.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scrying spirit-land she finds authenticity –<\/p>\n there on the banks of the River Lark<\/p>\n in Bury St Edmunds, the diamond pattern<\/p>\n <\/p>\n of one of his Argyle socks emerges.\u00a0 She stares<\/p>\n as he sips a pint of Old Speckled Hen<\/p>\n and sprinkles malt vinegar on his cod and chips.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mary Franklin<\/strong> has had poems published in various journals, anthologies and ezines in UK, Canada, Australia and the USA.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Crystal Ball She polishes her crystal ball with Windolene until it gleams.\u00a0 A client has asked her about someone – is he earthside or airside? She guides her hands over the cobalt-blue surface. Her long fingers laden with black nail varnish explore like traffic grids on an inner-city map. […]<\/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-6927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927","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=6927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6929,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6927\/revisions\/6929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}