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Like Eden<\/strong><\/p>\n when the artful conception we bless the blossom<\/p>\n by design but within trimming shrubs praising in the garden and constant as the papacy<\/p>\n we heel upon the education of ants we are not forgiven<\/p>\n unbidden undo seraphim by design and we are not <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gareth Writer-Davies<\/strong> was Commended in the Prole Laureate Competition in 2015, Shortlisted for the Bridport Prize and the Erbacce Prize in 2014, Highly Commended, Geoff Stevens Memorial Prize in 2013 and 2012. His pamphlet Bodies,<\/em><\/a> was published this year through Indigo Dreams. Find him on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gareth.writerdavies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like Eden when the artful conception that frames the plot is forgotten we bless the blossom by design a garden is not nature but within we play the creator trimming shrubs pulling weeds praising the sham capabilities of box in the garden we are both tyrant and slave and constant as 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-9546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546","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=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9549,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions\/9549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthat frames the plot
\nis forgotten<\/p>\n
\na garden is not nature<\/p>\n
\nwe play the creator<\/p>\n
\npulling weeds<\/p>\n
\nthe sham capabilities of box<\/p>\n
\nwe are both tyrant and slave<\/p>\n
\nbring down a thrush
\nin song<\/p>\n
\nwe warm our hands by the ash tree<\/p>\n
\nin nettle beds<\/p>\n
\na garden is not nature<\/p>\n
\nour own creators<\/p>\n