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Below the Feather<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cuckoo agrees that<\/p>\n the guts of a pig<\/p>\n would make fine compost<\/p>\n in the garden of<\/p>\n Eden. His blatant<\/p>\n <\/p>\n attempts to deflect<\/p>\n the butchering hoe<\/p>\n of Adam didn’t work,<\/p>\n cuckoo’s hot bowels<\/p>\n would be plucked below<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the feather and placed<\/p>\n reverently on<\/p>\n the flush leaf mold, his<\/p>\n blush blood would be sprayed<\/p>\n as fertiliser.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Grant Tarbard<\/strong> has worked as a computer games journalist, a contributor to football fanzines, an editor, a reviewer and an interviewer. He is co-founder of Resurgant Press.<\/em> His work can be seen in such magazines as The Rialto, The Journal, Southlight, Sarasvati, Earth Love, Mood Swing, Puff Puff Prose Poetry & Prose, Postcards Poetry and Prose, Playerist 2, Lake City Lights, The Open Mouse, Miracle, Poetry Cornwall, I-70, South Florida Review, Zymbol<\/em> andDecanto. \u00a0<\/em>His first\u00a0collection\u00a0‘Yellow Wolf’ is out now, published by WK Press.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Below the Feather Cuckoo agrees that the guts of a pig would make fine compost in the garden of Eden. His blatant attempts to deflect the butchering hoe of Adam didn’t work, cuckoo’s hot bowels would be plucked below the feather and placed reverently on the flush leaf mold, […]<\/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-8981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981","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=8981"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8985,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8981\/revisions\/8985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}