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Illusions<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The depth of snow that winter! You dug<\/p>\n deep, deeper, waiting for life to begin<\/p>\n <\/p>\n again. To find you I sent lightning,<\/p>\n crows, a skein of swans to stretch<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the sky with their looking. To lie low<\/p>\n you grew into evergreens, a thousand<\/p>\n <\/p>\n pine cone eyes to look upon me<\/p>\n with a fervour more stubborn than clay.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Joel Moktar<\/strong> writes poetry and short fiction. His writing has been published in various magazines and anthologies, including Popshot<\/em>, Iota<\/em>, Belleville Park Pages<\/em> and In Protest: 150 Poems for Human Rights<\/em>. Joel was born in Singapore, has spent most of his life in London, and currently lives and works in Nairobi.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Illusions The depth of snow that winter! You dug deep, deeper, waiting for life to begin again. To find you I sent lightning, crows, a skein of swans to stretch the sky with their looking. To lie low you grew into evergreens, a thousand pine cone eyes 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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166","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=9166"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9168,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9166\/revisions\/9168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}