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For the last time<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With a mother’s practised care<\/p>\n I grasp your greenstick frame<\/p>\n and hoist you to your unsure feet<\/p>\n though you would be easy to hurt.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A time will come that will be the last<\/p>\n I perform this simple service<\/p>\n and neither one of us will know<\/p>\n to nod at its passing.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Chrissie Cuthbertson<\/strong> lives in Oxfordshire and is a lecturer\/researcher in the social sciences. She is completing a creative writing diploma at University of Oxford. Well-published in her academic role, her first poem was published in South Bank Poetry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" For the last time With a mother’s practised care I grasp your greenstick frame and hoist you to your unsure feet though you would be easy to hurt. A time will come that will be the last I perform this simple service and neither one of us will know to […]<\/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-9045","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\/9045","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=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9047,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}