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\u00a0A month\u2019s trial\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Attempting to butch up your girly home,<\/p>\n you consign Marilyn cushions to the spare room,<\/p>\n replace boudoir duvets with dark covers.<\/p>\n Underwear entwining in \u2018a big wash\u2019,<\/p>\n your vegetarian trolley re-discovers<\/p>\n the meat counter at Tesco\u2019s.<\/p>\n His\u2019 You\u2019re trying too hard\u2019<\/p>\n is drowned out by the vacuum cleaner.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n But after years of solitary living,<\/p>\n you long to replace your siren shift<\/p>\n with comfy leggings and Tee shirt,<\/p>\n stretching out in your bed like a cat before a fire.<\/p>\n Read a chapter on the loo<\/p>\n encouraging your coy bowels to poo<\/p>\n without anxious \u2018Are you alright? \u2019up the stairs.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And when he blames village water for his unruly hair,<\/p>\n mock winces at your cheese grater towels,<\/p>\n will not exchange constitutional beach walk for bridle paths;<\/p>\n it becomes clear that you are some way off<\/p>\n handing in sea view keys<\/p>\n and adding his name to your rent book.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fiona Sinclair<\/strong> reviews for numerous poetry magazines including IS&T<\/em> and Happenstance<\/em>. She is\u00a0 the editor of the online poetry magazine Message in a Bottle<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em> Hew second pamphlet A Game of Hide and Seek<\/em> <\/strong><\/a>is out now<\/strong><\/a> from Indigo Dreams.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0A month\u2019s trial\u2026 Attempting to butch up your girly home, you consign Marilyn cushions to the spare room, replace boudoir duvets with dark covers. Underwear entwining in \u2018a big wash\u2019, your vegetarian trolley re-discovers the meat counter at Tesco\u2019s. His\u2019 You\u2019re trying too hard\u2019 is drowned out by the vacuum cleaner. […]<\/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-6934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934","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=6934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6936,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6934\/revisions\/6936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}