{"id":8994,"date":"2015-08-05T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T08:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2015-07-29T10:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-07-29T10:44:58","slug":"wendy-orr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wendy-orr\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Orr"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Telescope<\/strong><\/p>\n

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You are an upward line<\/p>\n

a vertical dash, binary<\/p>\n

in the distance<\/p>\n

and me the O, when you\u2019re<\/p>\n

striding towards me<\/p>\n

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I watch you, moving<\/p>\n

undoing the day<\/p>\n

leased, like someone else\u2019s<\/p>\n

you slide long seconds<\/p>\n

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into my lock-lens<\/p>\n

let-loose, roaming<\/p>\n

with your skin-scent<\/p>\n

lick of the day\u2019s sweat.<\/p>\n

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your shoulders slope<\/p>\n

to this balance, bearing.<\/p>\n

holding the angle tense<\/p>\n

keeping the watching mine<\/p>\n

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your bent head dipped<\/p>\n

your neck stiff<\/p>\n

in its set towards me<\/p>\n

flexed<\/p>\n

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the slow eye, determined<\/p>\n

in missing mine until<\/p>\n

your advancing step<\/p>\n

reaches this<\/p>\n

swung<\/p>\n

door<\/p>\n

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\u00a0dash<\/p>\n

\u00a0O<\/p>\n

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Wendy Orr<\/strong> has a background in teaching and leadership in Secondary Education and lives in Fife. She is winner of Mother’s Milk Books Poetry Competition 2014.<\/p>\n


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