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Our mouths are no longer in love After rising I pair lonely hellos And still we return <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n J V Birch<\/strong> lives in South Australia.\u00a0 Her poems have appeared in anthologies and magazines across the UK, Canada and Australia, including The New Writer, Sentinel Champions and Australian Love Poems.\u00a0 To find out more, visit www.jvbirch.wordpress.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 17 years Our mouths are no longer in love they forget their place what they used to be. After rising I pair lonely hellos spend the day elsewhere although you left some time before this. And still we return to goodnights like moths that martyr the window until we fold into ourselves. […]<\/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-8152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152","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=8152"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8154,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8152\/revisions\/8154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n17 years<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nthey forget their place
\nwhat they used to be.<\/p>\n
\nspend the day elsewhere
\nalthough you left some time before this.<\/p>\n
\nto goodnights like moths that martyr the window
\nuntil we fold into ourselves.<\/p>\n