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Seven Winters<\/strong> Once I lived beneath a lemon tree, air on my skin, mud squelching Seven winters have passed a large and exuberant friend who laughs louder than anyone else on the sour bite of a lemon. I want to make my house in a corner of sandalwood, to watch her enormous I want to live for one season more in a land O Summer, O Africa, O deathless Mama, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monica Corish<\/strong>‘s poetry has been published widely, including Poetry Ireland, Orbis, The North, Causeway\/Cabhsair, Artemis, THE SHOp, Cyphers, New Irish Writing <\/em>and The Stinging Fly<\/em>. Her first collection, Slow Mysteries<\/em>, was published by Doghouse. www.monicacorish.ie <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Seven Winters for Trish Howley Once I lived beneath a lemon tree, wore sandals all year long, air on my skin, mud squelching between my toes after sudden rain. Seven winters have passed since I last saw Africa, and I miss her: a large and exuberant friend who wears colours that clash, […]<\/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-8694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694","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=8694"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8696,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8694\/revisions\/8696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfor Trish Howley<\/em><\/p>\n
\nwore sandals all year long,<\/p>\n
\nbetween my toes after sudden rain.<\/p>\n
\nsince I last saw Africa, and I miss her:<\/p>\n
\nwho wears colours that clash,<\/p>\n
\nin the restaurant, who sucks lustily on crab claws,<\/p>\n
\nI want to live with her again.<\/p>\n
\nof her courtyard, to smell like her,<\/p>\n
\nand flexible hips as she dances.<\/p>\n
\nwhere rain is always a blessing.<\/p>\n
\nmake a place for me at your table.<\/p>\n