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Stink Spirit<\/strong><\/p>\n You have found a way to repress it: A stranger unclogs your slurry guts <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Deborah Turnbull<\/strong> is awaiting the print run of the pamphlet Devotions<\/em>, to which she and poet Tony Flynn have contributed ten poems each. She is close to finishing her first full collection. Its title is proving to be more elusive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Stink Spirit You have found a way to repress it: That human waste dumped in you, Stewing in its own juice. The dull pain Of being almost grounded \u2014 A slowed mutant, inflamed. A stranger unclogs your slurry guts Of car parts, bicycles, festering cess. Pollution is not pretty but its outpouring […]<\/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-8122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122","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=8122"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8124,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8122\/revisions\/8124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThat human waste dumped in you,
\nStewing in its own juice. The dull pain
\nOf being almost grounded \u2014
\nA slowed mutant, inflamed.<\/p>\n
\nOf car parts, bicycles, festering cess.
\nPollution is not pretty but its outpouring
\nHas you moving to sea again \u2014 soft-bodied,
\nFlowing vermiform. After all, a river god.<\/p>\n