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Pearl Harbour<\/strong><\/p>\n After Jacques Gaucheron<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Hiroshima there are many pearl harbours<\/p>\n burning in waters of survivors eyes and I have<\/p>\n watched her oysters prise open through grief,<\/p>\n a pale glaucoma where the photographed dot<\/p>\n explodes that day<\/em> in the grief linished pupils.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Hiroshima there were many boats on fire<\/p>\n floating in the six rivers like Viking burials,<\/p>\n thousands of rags anchored to the old place<\/p>\n by limbs caught by trees rigor-mortis, did they<\/p>\n never want to leave this city of water and fire.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Hiroshima they harvest pearls in the inland sea<\/p>\n and some use these spent shells for soup bowls or<\/p>\n or ashtrays, but some hold the tale to their ears and<\/p>\n hear the dead whispering to those who drank them,<\/p>\n I am a shadow that once cast a boy, hiding in the open.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Antony Owen<\/strong> is from Coventry, England. He is the author of three poetry collections by Heaventree Press and Pighog Press and is known for writing poems addressing national identity and the consequences of conflict. His work has appeared in several magazines throughout the world including a translated anthology of war poems by Poetry International Europe in 2015 called Steden Schuilen Nuit.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Pearl Harbour After Jacques Gaucheron In Hiroshima there are many pearl harbours burning in waters of survivors eyes and I have watched her oysters prise open through grief, a pale glaucoma where the photographed dot explodes that day in the grief linished pupils. In Hiroshima there were many boats on […]<\/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-9205","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\/9205","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=9205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9445,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9205\/revisions\/9445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}