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Wayland the Smith<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n He moved into cars.<\/p>\n It was inevitable<\/p>\n with no more ploughs to mend<\/p>\n or horses left with a silver penny<\/p>\n for a special overnight job.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n There was still a bit of welding<\/p>\n you know, axles and stuff<\/p>\n though he had oxy to do it now<\/p>\n bright but soulless<\/p>\n and anyway all you can get these days is mild steel<\/p>\n not the real wrought stuff<\/p>\n its sinews strong with glassy slag \u2013<\/p>\n so what\u2019s the point?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And empty days he manned the single one-armed pump<\/p>\n snuffed up petrol fumes<\/p>\n to clear his head.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Still hobbled<\/p>\n from that old wound to his hamstrings.<\/p>\n But he managed. Folk admired him.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The youngsters thought he was a<\/p>\n character.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n He died, I think.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sally Douglas<\/strong> lives in Devon, UK. She has been published in various journals, including The Rialto, Ambit<\/em> and Envoi.<\/em> Her collection Candling the Eggs<\/em> is published by Cinnamon Press. She blogs very intermittently at http:\/\/sallydouglas.blogspot.co.uk\u00a0 <\/a>where a selection of her poetry, including extracts from the book, can be found. Twitter : @SallyDPoet<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Wayland the Smith He moved into cars. It was inevitable with no more ploughs to mend or horses left with a silver penny for a special overnight job. There was still a bit of welding you know, axles and stuff though he had oxy to do it now bright but […]<\/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-9056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056","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=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9057,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}