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Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies<\/strong> There\u2019s a thin blue line A square shadow of shade ignored by the birds parked by the covered road sign None of this signifies anything, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rupert Loydell<\/strong> is the editor of Stride<\/em> magazine, a contributing editor to intenrational times<\/em>, and Senior Lecturer in English with Creative Writing at Falmouth University. Shearsman have just published his new book The Return of the Man Who Has Everything<\/em>, which continues his exploration of post-confessional narrative poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Holes & Other Inconsistencies after Edgar Martins There\u2019s a thin blue line sprayed vertically on the wall and a film of grey dust on the floor. A square shadow of shade turns sand a darker yellow, and there\u2019s a distant light in the forest ignored by the birds rising into the […]<\/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":[139,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563","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=8563"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8774,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8563\/revisions\/8774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nafter Edgar Martins<\/p>\n
\nsprayed vertically on the wall
\nand a film of grey dust on the floor.<\/p>\n
\nturns sand a darker yellow,
\nand there\u2019s a distant light in the forest<\/p>\n
\nrising into the faded sky
\nand a driver walking away from his car<\/p>\n
\nnear the abandoned raised highway
\nabove a permanently closed caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n
\nthey are just part of the world\u2019s emptiness
\nwhich small waves in the lake wash away.<\/p>\n