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Bad\u00a0 Dreams<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n I have found<\/p>\n To be a mother is to fear all horrors.<\/p>\n Served nightly on the television screen,<\/p>\n the bruises, broken heads, and broken lives,<\/p>\n stretched out to entertain, scene after scene;<\/p>\n they peel their characters\u2019 souls, peel back their secrets<\/p>\n like the skin of a grape, purple and raw;<\/p>\n and then comes the News to inform us, closing in<\/p>\n on latest images of this year\u2019s war.<\/p>\n You see a mother\u2019s son, his dead head muffled close<\/p>\n in a stranger\u2019s coat, he\u2019s broken and defiled;<\/p>\n crying out, Let not the world do this to you;<\/p>\n my child, my child!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The baby gazes back from his warm crib,<\/p>\n while I bend over him, panicked and wild<\/p>\n ,\u2028his eyes are webs of sleep and innocence:<\/p>\n a child of wonder, like that woman\u2019s child.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Eve Kimber<\/strong> has been writing for so many years that she suspects her style has gone out of fashion and she’s reinventing herself to come round again, like vintage clothes. One published book and poems in Poetry Review<\/em> and other magazines.\u00a0 See more here: wordsaremychocolate@wordpress.com<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bad\u00a0 Dreams I have found To be a mother is to fear all horrors. Served nightly on the television screen, the bruises, broken heads, and broken lives, stretched out to entertain, scene after scene; they peel their characters\u2019 souls, peel back their secrets like the skin of a grape, purple and raw; 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-8269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269","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=8269"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8272,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8269\/revisions\/8272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}