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Remembrance of an Open Wound<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whenever we make love, you say<\/p>\n it\u2019s like fucking a crash \u2013<\/p>\n I bring the bus with me into the bedroom.<\/p>\n There\u2019s a lull, like before the fire brigade<\/p>\n arrives, flames licking the soles<\/p>\n of our feet. Neither of us knows<\/p>\n when the petrol tank will explode.<\/p>\n You say I\u2019ve decorated my house<\/p>\n to recreate the accident \u2013<\/p>\n my skeleton wired with fireworks,<\/p>\n my menagerie flinging air about.<\/p>\n You look at me in my gold underwear \u2013<\/p>\n a crone of sixteen, who lost<\/p>\n her virginity to a lightning bolt.<\/p>\n It\u2019s time to pull the handrail out.<\/p>\n I didn\u2019t expect love to feel like this \u2013<\/p>\n you holding me down with your knee,<\/p>\n wrenching the steel rod from my charred body<\/p>\n quickly, kindly, setting me free.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Pascale Petit<\/strong>\u2019s sixth collection Fauverie <\/em>was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and a suite of poems from it won the Manchester Poetry Prize. Her fifth, What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo <\/em>was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and Wales Book of the Year.\u00a0 This is her website.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Note: Remembrance of an Open Wound<\/em> is taken from What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo<\/em> <\/a>\u00a0(Seren, 2010) <\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Remembrance of an Open Wound Whenever we make love, you say it\u2019s like fucking a crash \u2013 I bring the bus with me into the bedroom. There\u2019s a lull, like before the fire brigade arrives, flames licking the soles of our feet. Neither of us knows when the petrol tank will […]<\/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-8344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344","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=8344"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8346,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8344\/revisions\/8346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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