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Totem<\/strong><\/p>\n Cedar man says John Greening<\/strong> received a Cholmondeley Award in 2008. His most recent collections are To the War Poets<\/em> (Carcanet: http:\/\/www.carcanet.co.uk\/cgi-bin\/indexer?product=9781906188085 <\/a>and Knot<\/em> (Worple). His Poetry Masterclass appeared in 2011; he is currently editing an edition of Edmund Blunden<\/em> for OUP. His website is www.johngreening.co.uk<\/a> and you can find him on Facebook and Twitter: @GreeningPoet<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Totem Cedar man says come out of that old chest and start climbing again Halibut man says catch the sea and let it lift you from flatness Double-headed snake says to the doubts listen and they say listen Whale says there she blows there above the round tower\u2019s far escape wheel Raven […]<\/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-7786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786","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=7786"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7794,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7786\/revisions\/7794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ncome out of that
\nold chest and start
\nclimbing again
\nHalibut man
\nsays catch the sea
\nand let it lift
\nyou from flatness
\nDouble-headed
\nsnake says to the
\ndoubts listen and
\nthey say listen
\nWhale says there she
\nblows there above
\nthe round tower\u2019s
\nfar escape wheel
\nRaven says but
\nmemory knows
\nsomething that is
\ngoing to fall
\nSea otter says
\nthen it\u2019s time to
\ndo nothing but
\nplay in the waves
\nThunderbird says
\nconquerors fight
\ntheir way to the
\ntop of the pole
\nOld man says but
\nmy view of the
\npolo club is
\nquite adequate
\nBear says I am
\nabove you all
\nyou bare-faced low-
\ndown losers look
\nThe Man with a
\nlarge hat, barely
\naudible, says
\nactually no<\/p>\n