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Breathing<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sometimes in the car I forget to breathe,<\/p>\n almost. Respiration reduces to<\/p>\n tiny transactions reluctant to leave<\/p>\n <\/p>\n any trace. Warm skin and car seat a new<\/p>\n union, matter overcoming mind,<\/p>\n the windscreen a cornea to see through,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the heartbeat of wipers. I am confined<\/p>\n until a sickening jolt of preservation,<\/p>\n a shriek of tyres. Less than seconds defined<\/p>\n <\/p>\n by red lights focussed, the dislocation<\/p>\n of time, and a density of fears<\/p>\n like a stone, but with the termination<\/p>\n <\/p>\n of burnt rubber on tarmac, it appears<\/p>\n there are only white lines stretching on for years.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ilse Pedler<\/strong> has had poems published previously in Poetry News, Prole, 14, Poetry Salzburg Review, Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em> and The North<\/em> among others. She has also had poems in 2 anthologies. She works as a Veterinary Surgeon in Saffron Walden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Breathing Sometimes in the car I forget to breathe, almost. Respiration reduces to tiny transactions reluctant to leave any trace. Warm skin and car seat a new union, matter overcoming mind, the windscreen a cornea to see through, the heartbeat of wipers. I am confined until a sickening jolt […]<\/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-8856","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\/8856","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=8856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8858,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8856\/revisions\/8858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}