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Shenanigans<\/strong><\/p>\n I play the fox; what else do you expect in this You stand, alone at the window, tall, white staring out as if I was will-o\u2019-the-wisp, versed with pulpit words. Nightly I come to you brogues, balmorals, wingtips, winkle-pickers Trophies lifted from careless men, cradled in this laid out for review and match. I preach a choice, Let each man claim his own, tie you tight as a lace. by any glib-tongued spiel. Test the snout, the brush, my fox paws are real, make no mistake. The woods put on your dancing shoes, step out, trot a tricksy <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Patrick Lodge<\/strong> was born in Wales, lives in Yorkshire and travels on an Irish passport. His poems have been published in several countries and anthologies as well as achieving success in competitions. Valley Press published his first collection, An Anniversary of Flight<\/em>, in 2013.<\/p>\n Note: On June 5 2014 BBC Leeds news reported that a fox was stealing dozens of shoes in a Leeds suburb and dumping them outside a woman’s house every night. Shenanigans<\/em> is thought to derive from the Irish, sionnachuighim<\/em>, which means I play tricks or\u00a0 play the fox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shenanigans I play the fox; what else do you expect in this moony garden? You stand, alone at the window, tall, white as down, staring out as if I was will-o\u2019-the-wisp, a green-eyed seducer versed with pulpit words. Nightly I come to you with a sermon of shoes: brogues, balmorals, wingtips, winkle-pickers […]<\/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-8309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309","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=8309"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8311,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8309\/revisions\/8311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nmoony garden?<\/p>\n
\nas down,<\/p>\n
\na green-eyed seducer<\/p>\n
\nwith a sermon of shoes:<\/p>\n
\ntrainers and loafers.<\/p>\n
\ncunning grin,<\/p>\n
\nsilly goose.<\/p>\n
\nBut don\u2019t be deceived<\/p>\n
\nthe shining pelt of it –<\/p>\n
\ncall us: stay wild and free,<\/p>\n
\nmeasure with me.<\/p>\n