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The Balloonist<\/strong><\/p>\n _________________________________________________________ My breath threads and swells spans set side by side; assigned Tell me if you can imagine <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Victor Buehring<\/strong> works for a charity in Oxford and enjoys writing in his spare time. His poetry has been published in The Interpreter\u2019s House, Orbis <\/em>and The Cadaverine<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Balloonist _________________________________________________________ –(__________________________________________________________)====== My breath threads and swells outward, prolonging the exterior. I mould the supple extension by turning its periphery toward the center in a junction of surfaces choked into points and spaced to create successive portions; interrupted _\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0__\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0___\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0___\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0____\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0____\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0____\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0____\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0___ –(@)(_)(__)(_)(__)(_)(__)(_)(____)(____)(_____)(_____)(_____)(____ )(____)(_)= spans set […]<\/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-8118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118","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=8118"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8120,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8118\/revisions\/8120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n–(__________________________________________________________)======<\/p>\n
\noutward, prolonging
\nthe exterior. I mould
\nthe supple extension
\nby turning its periphery
\ntoward the center
\nin a junction of surfaces
\nchoked into points
\nand spaced to create
\nsuccessive portions; interrupted
\n_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0\u00a0__\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0_\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0___\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0___\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0____\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0____\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0____\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0____\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0___
\n–(@)(_)(__)(_)(__)(_)(__)(_)(____)(____)(_____)(_____)(_____)(____ )(____)(_)=<\/p>\n
\nhere and there and then brought together
\nin multiple intervals
\nand series which combine
\nto fashion parts: a tulip twist snout (@),
\npinched ears (() ()), locked legs ( ));
\njoined up; rolled up
\nto give an outline — a form;
\na clumsy imitation:
\n____
\n____(() ^ _^ ())
\n( )(____ )(_(@)_)
\n(_____)( )
\n( ))\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0( ))<\/p>\n
\nwhat it’s meant to be.<\/p>\n