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Bowls<\/strong><\/p>\n Fine for an hour, then dull, despite a summer sun. little genuflections – bows, knee-bends, the minor knocks, near misses, clusterings <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keith Hutson<\/strong> farms a windy hillside in Halifax, West Yorkshire and coaches boxing. His poems have appeared in several journals including Prole,Pennine Platform, Hinterland and Butcher’s Dog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bowls Fine for an hour, then dull, despite a summer sun. Green tedium. But do beware, if nudged a bit, this game is good at slowly rolling on and on and on: little genuflections – bows, knee-bends, cupped hands, unfolding arms, weave in the dying light their tapestry of shadows and perpetuate the […]<\/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-7542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542","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=7542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7543,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7542\/revisions\/7543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGreen tedium. But do beware,
\nif nudged a bit, this game is good
\nat slowly rolling on and on and on:<\/p>\n
\ncupped hands, unfolding arms,
\nweave in the dying light their tapestry
\nof shadows and perpetuate<\/p>\n
\nand calls of ‘Way too heavy, Jim!’
\ninto a never-ending winding-down,
\na loop of letting go.<\/p>\n