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Argument<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then, your quiet scrubbing shoulders<\/p>\n as bats fly past outside like broken plates.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I unpeel fish spines, scrape away the skin<\/p>\n and sticky flakes. Our lists are done,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n the kitchen’s clean, but the cloying scent<\/p>\n of supper fills the air. Beneath the hiss<\/p>\n <\/p>\n of steam, the kettle’s rattle, potatoes claw<\/p>\n inside the cupboards, cheese furs over<\/p>\n <\/p>\n and lost scales still glint along the surfaces<\/p>\n in certain lights.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0Charlotte Eichler<\/strong> lives in West Yorkshire and has been published in various magazines, including The Rialto<\/em>, Agenda\u00a0<\/em>and The Interpreter’s House. <\/em>She\u00a0was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2014. Twitter: @CLEichler<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Argument Then, your quiet scrubbing shoulders as bats fly past outside like broken plates. I unpeel fish spines, scrape away the skin and sticky flakes. Our lists are done, the kitchen’s clean, but the cloying scent of supper fills the air. Beneath the hiss of steam, the […]<\/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-9221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221","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=9221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9222,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9221\/revisions\/9222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}