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“F” is for “finding anything that is not paper to draw on!”<\/strong><\/p>\n At first I was impressed Until I found the 3 lines An “F” embossed on my degree certificate, In a flurry on the shopping list With permanent marker on your arm, I would be unsurprised to see the letter “F” <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarah L Dixon<\/strong> hosts Post Box Poets,<\/em> Manchester. She has recently been published in Loose Muse, BOMP3<\/em> and YorkMix,<\/em>. She is taking The Quiet Comper<\/em>e format on a tour of the North in 2014 thanks to Arts Council funding. Find out more here: www.about.me\/thequietcompere<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “F” is for “finding anything that is not paper to draw on!” At first I was impressed when you could write the initial letter of your first name. I proudly watched your face concentrate the ink into a recognisable shape. Until I found the 3 lines in black felt-tip on the beige […]<\/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-7211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211","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=7211"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7213,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7211\/revisions\/7213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nwhen you could write the initial letter of your first name.
\nI proudly watched your face concentrate
\nthe ink into a recognisable shape.<\/p>\n
\nin black felt-tip on the beige sofa throw,
\nthe angry chalk crumbs under the kitchen table,
\nwell before I find the “F” marked in a lazy moment
\nmid-tantrum
\nbeneath one of the chairs.<\/p>\n
\nframeless since you broke it in a squall
\nabout how the number 8 is not the number 9.<\/p>\n
\nmaking my trip to Sainsbury’s redundant
\nas I return with treats and your food,
\nbut forget the toilet rolls, bleach and Vanish.
\nYour marks will remain until the next trip.<\/p>\n
\nbranded on your new super-hero T-shirt
\nin red paint.<\/p>\n
\nemblazoned in the sky,
\ngrown into the flower-bed you helped me plant
\nor snail-trailed across our lounge carpet.<\/p>\n