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The Use of Me<\/strong><\/p>\n Turn me in with turning leaves, with squirrels, Place me in among the lathes and potters wheels, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gram Joel Davies<\/strong> lives in Somerset, UK. You can find his recent writing in The Centrifugal Eye, The Lake<\/em> and The Journal<\/em>. He reads with Juncture 25 poets. His Twitter handle is @poplarist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Use of Me Turn me in with turning leaves, with squirrels, tend me seldom as some feral plot. Watch me like a model in my polka dot apparel, let me be my foibles and my fops. Place me in among the lathes and potters wheels, plant me with the sycamores 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-8027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027","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=8027"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8029,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8027\/revisions\/8029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ntend me seldom as some feral plot.
\nWatch me like a model in my polka dot apparel,
\nlet me be my foibles and my fops.<\/p>\n
\nplant me with the sycamores and rings of yew.
\nUse me for that certain task like proper tools,
\nlove me when I waiver, spin or skew.<\/p>\n