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Call<\/strong> Often, the phone It\u2019s my mother, again, calling She\u2019s the only person in my life, or else not listening at all, while <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Richie McCaffery<\/strong> is in the final stages of a PhD in Scottish Literature at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of two pamphlets, including Spinning Plates<\/em> from HappenStance Press, as well as the book-length collection Cairn<\/em> published by Nine Arches Press in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Call (After Vera Pavlova) Often, the phone in the corner starts crying and I come running to calm it. It\u2019s my mother, again, calling to tell me of the problem with today. She\u2019s the only person in my life, to have studied my ear, as a baby, quiet at her breast, or […]<\/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-8457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457","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=8457"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8458,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8457\/revisions\/8458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n(After Vera Pavlova)<\/em><\/p>\n
\nin the corner starts crying
\nand I come running to calm it.<\/p>\n
\nto tell me of the problem with today.<\/p>\n
\nto have studied my ear,
\nas a baby, quiet at her breast,<\/p>\n
\nI cried out for her attention only.<\/p>\n