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Even brick may burn, and bone \u2013 Rescue what you can from the ravages Later, I cannot linger on the horror How many of us live in a house of fire Scott in the burnt house, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Adrian Slatcher<\/strong> writes poetry, fiction and music and lives in Manchester. He has recently had work published online and offline in Verse Kraken, Bare Fiction, Unthology 4 and Best of Manchester Poets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scott in the Burnt House Even brick may burn, and bone \u2013 Fire has an elemental power. Then stay in the burned out house. Rescue what you can from the ravages For what can survive the flames? Take a taper to your memories. Later, I cannot linger on the horror Of Zelda and […]<\/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-7575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575","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=7575"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7578,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7575\/revisions\/7578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nScott in the Burnt House<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nFire has an elemental power.
\nThen stay in the burned out house.<\/p>\n
\nFor what can survive the flames?
\nTake a taper to your memories.<\/p>\n
\nOf Zelda and the others in the asylum
\nDesperate bangings on a locked door.<\/p>\n
\nWithout once putting out the flames?
\nThe stale smell of smoke stays with us still.<\/p>\n
\nCompleting \u201cTender is the Night\u201d.
\nThe flames out, the fire still roaring.<\/p>\n