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Sleepers<\/strong><\/p>\n You watch his punch-bag uvula lunge.\u00a0 A word search lies part filled His forearm hairs, erect in the cool Her head nods to the carriage’s pitch The train slows.\u00a0 Sleepers appear, The PA chimes. Wigan next stop. On the platform they zoom away, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n William Stephenson<\/strong>‘s poems have appeared in Anon, Envoi, Iota, Magma, Orbis, The North <\/em>and The Rialto<\/em>. His pamphlets are Rain Dancer<\/em>s in the Data Cloud<\/em> (Templar) and Source Code<\/em> (Ravenglass).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sleepers You watch his punch-bag uvula quiver as the air he snores tries fresh combinations: left hook, jab, lunge.\u00a0 A word search lies part filled in his copy of Puzzler Collection; celebrity names cartouched in ink. His forearm hairs, erect in the cool conditioned air, flatten as they press the wrist of […]<\/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-7545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545","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=7545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7547,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7545\/revisions\/7547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nquiver as the air he snores tries
\nfresh combinations: left hook, jab,<\/p>\n
\nin his copy of Puzzler Collection;
\ncelebrity names cartouched in ink.<\/p>\n
\nconditioned air, flatten as they press
\nthe wrist of the woman beside him.<\/p>\n
\nas if she\u2019s saying Yes to the universe.
\nThey are dreaming together in public.<\/p>\n
\ndividing the gravel\u2019s blur.\u00a0 Frames
\nin the rattling tail of a spool of film.<\/p>\n
\nYou look back.\u00a0 Two vacant seats.
\nThey\u2019ve migrated, cranes to Canada.<\/p>\n
\narms linked in a figure of infinity.
\nWhen you alight leave nothing behind.<\/p>\n