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Jam Making<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n She runs a finger<\/p>\n across the back,<\/p>\n of the wooden spoon<\/p>\n warm tracks through skin.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n All instinct here,<\/p>\n no thermometer,<\/p>\n just sugar and fruit<\/p>\n staining the fingers,<\/p>\n bloodying the mouth.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Autumn fugs the kitchen<\/p>\n golden amber wafting<\/p>\n pears and ginger.<\/p>\n strawberries and vanilla.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n With sticky fingers I<\/p>\n linger waist high to taste,<\/p>\n she spins the magic<\/p>\n of the weathered old pan.<\/p>\n Glass jars chink expectant,<\/p>\n await their paper hat,<\/p>\n their twine.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In a line, sticky labels<\/p>\n smudge an uneven hand<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennie Owen<\/strong> is a University Lecturer in Creative Writing, and has been a Senior Editor for the on-line journal Black Market Review<\/em> since 2008. She lives in Lancashire with her husband, three children and cat.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Jam Making She runs a finger across the back, of the wooden spoon warm tracks through skin. All instinct here, no thermometer, just sugar and fruit staining the fingers, bloodying the mouth. Autumn fugs the kitchen golden amber wafting pears and ginger. strawberries and vanilla. With sticky fingers […]<\/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-8992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992","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=8992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8993,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8992\/revisions\/8993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}