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Under wheels, leaves flash a fallen sunlight and stiff sheets.\u00a0 We stop for water Their skins are bronze, <\/strong><\/p>\n Jean Atkin<\/strong> works as a poet, and lives in Shropshire. Her first collection Not Lost Since Last Time<\/em> is published by Oversteps Books. She has also published four pamphlets and a children\u2019s novel, The Crow House<\/em>. She is Poet in Residence for Wenlock Poetry Festival 2015.\u00a0\u00a0 www.jeanatkin.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grass Verge Near Soissons Under wheels, leaves flash a fallen sunlight in the lanes.\u00a0 Cold farms are hung with hoarfrost and stiff sheets.\u00a0 We stop for water by an orchard, pinch two pears from over the ditch. Their skins are bronze, a little rough, flesh sweet. Jean Atkin works as a poet, […]<\/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-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","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=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8308,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions\/8308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nGrass Verge Near Soissons<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nin the lanes.\u00a0 Cold farms
\nare hung with hoarfrost<\/p>\n
\nby an orchard, pinch two pears
\nfrom over the ditch.<\/p>\n
\na little rough,
\nflesh sweet.<\/p>\n