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*<\/p>\n
Tuberose dying
\nglass skyscraper
\nin the sun<\/p>\n
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*<\/p>\n
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White denim
\nsplattered paint balloons
\non tarmac<\/p>\n
\n*<\/p>\n
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Monsoon gust
\na steel tunnel
\nunder the city<\/p>\n
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*<\/p>\n
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Larkspur trill
\na morning in July
\nviola lessons<\/p>\n
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Afshan Shafi <\/strong>lives in Lahore, Pakistan and has studied English Literature and International Relations at The University of Buckingham and Regent\u2019s University London. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Clinic, Ala Champ Magazine, 3am magazine, ditch, Full of Crow, New Asian Writing, I am not a silent poet, The Toucan, Mad Swirl, Visual Verse, Black heart magazine,<\/em> and others. Her debut chapbook of poems Odd Circles\u00a0<\/em> was published by Readings (Pakistan) in 2014. She is the founding editor of the forthcoming\u00a0http:\/\/abbreviatejournal.com\/ <\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 Website: http:\/\/afshanshafi.com\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" * Tuberose dying glass skyscraper in the sun * White denim splattered paint balloons on tarmac * Monsoon gust a steel tunnel under the city * Larkspur trill a morning in July viola lessons Afshan Shafi lives in Lahore, Pakistan and has studied English […]<\/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-9316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316","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=9316"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9320,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9316\/revisions\/9320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}