\n*<\/p>\n
They lie with the wild
\nhoneysuckle,
\ndip their hair and toes in sunshine.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
A sliver of time \u2013 her inhale,
\nhis blink \u2013
\nsilence vibrates around them.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
She holds both the clock\u2019s hands, wrests
\nTime to a
\nstop, while he rests in her arms.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
The longest minutes of her life:
\nbetween
\nlast contraction and first breath.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
New moon watches her nuzzle her
\nbaby\u2019s head,
\ntells Time to leave them be.<\/p>\n
*<\/p>\n
In each lark\u2019s heartbeat, each spider\u2019s
\nstitch, each
\nbaby\u2019s blink, Time stretches, yawns.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n
Rosie Johnston<\/strong>\u2019s three pamphlets (sequences of 17-syllable poems) have been published by Lapwing Publications in Belfast. She also writes fiction and journalism, facilitates writing groups in London and Cambridge and is Poet in Residence for the Cambridgeshire Wildlife Trust. www.rosie-johnston.com <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" * They lie with the wild honeysuckle, dip their hair and toes in sunshine. * A sliver of time \u2013 her inhale, his blink \u2013 silence vibrates around them. * She holds both the clock\u2019s hands, wrests Time to a stop, while he rests in her arms. * The longest minutes of her life: […]<\/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-9360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360","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=9360"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9363,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9360\/revisions\/9363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}