{"id":8388,"date":"2015-04-08T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8388"},"modified":"2020-03-18T12:22:09","modified_gmt":"2020-03-18T12:22:09","slug":"fiona-larkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/fiona-larkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona Larkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Missing<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You were not the rowan tree,<br \/>\nsilhouetted on your practice net<br \/>\nat the far end of the garden.<\/p>\n<p>We children did not occupy<br \/>\na nesting place in forking boughs,<br \/>\nexperiment with harmonies,<\/p>\n<p>and we did not learn to fly<br \/>\nunder pinnate symmetries<br \/>\nof feathered leaves.<\/p>\n<p>We did not explore<br \/>\nthe rowan&#8217;s mythic properties,<br \/>\nquickbeam amulets<\/p>\n<p>which could not protect you,<br \/>\nbleeding scarlet rowan berries,<br \/>\nwhen you left us.<\/p>\n<p>You were not here to see it fall,<br \/>\nits sprawl of limbs across the grass,<br \/>\nhalf\u00a0waving and half crushed,<\/p>\n<p>and were not dazed by empty<br \/>\nair, the shape of sky<br \/>\nas it unselved.<\/p>\n<p>You could no longer lop or stack,<br \/>\nbook a skip or fill the boot,<br \/>\ncompress the rowan&#8217;s fifty feet<\/p>\n<p>into a composted giving back,<br \/>\nor build behind the iron shed<br \/>\nwhat I will not call a pyre.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fiona Larkin<\/strong>&#8216;s work has appeared in <em>SOUTH Poetry<\/em> and online in <a href=\"http:\/\/thestaresnest.com\/2015\/01\/08\/fiona-larkin-three-poems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Stare&#8217;s Nest<\/em><\/a>. She teaches English in the voluntary sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Missing You were not the rowan tree, silhouetted on your practice net at the far end of the garden. We children did not occupy a nesting place in forking boughs, experiment with harmonies, and we did not learn to fly under pinnate symmetries of feathered leaves. We did not explore the rowan&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/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-8388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388","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=8388"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21575,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8388\/revisions\/21575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}