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Eastbourne<\/strong><\/p>\n We\u2019re the youngest guests at the Queen\u2019s Hotel \u2013 except we\u2019re making love on the fifth floor The sexy doom of the split Everything\u2019s alive: whelks, do-nuts. Just a day trip to Seven Sisters, you said, for our first months, sharbing in Tottenham: The wind touches us up as we tussle the beam of the nougat bitten cliffs, women whose hearts are clamped on their faces Driving home (though it\u2019s no longer ours), a piece of the universe I hug my knees by the window at 3am, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Alison Winch<\/strong> has been published in Rialto, Poems in Which<\/em>, and others. She was showcase poet for Magma 51.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Eastbourne We\u2019re the youngest guests at the Queen\u2019s Hotel \u2013 and you\u2019re 52. It\u2019s the summer solstice and we\u2019re breaking up except we\u2019re making love on the fifth floor in an evening light as yolky as an afternoon. The sexy doom of the split is like falling in love and a stay of […]<\/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-8183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183","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=8183"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8186,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8183\/revisions\/8186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand you\u2019re 52. It\u2019s the summer solstice and we\u2019re breaking up<\/p>\n
\nin an evening light as yolky as an afternoon.<\/p>\n
\nis like falling in love and a stay of execution.<\/p>\n
\nThe soupy fumblings of the sea.<\/p>\n
\nwithout the bookies. You clot with nostalgia<\/p>\n
\nLadbrokes, William Hill, Paddy Power.<\/p>\n
\nin the purple gorse,<\/p>\n
\nand Eastbourne: ballroom dancing, plastic bed sheets, eggnog,<\/p>\n
\nhard as wedding bands.<\/p>\n
\nwe stop at Pease Pottage services:<\/p>\n
\nthat love forgot, you despair.<\/p>\n
\nremember the sea heaving the pier\u2019s stilted limb.<\/p>\n