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Secretary of God<\/strong><\/p>\n Our Lord has often revealed his secrets to the world through women.\u00a0 \u2013Christine de Pisan<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n These are not my words.<\/p>\n I drank God straight from the well.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I move through hours.<\/p>\n Predictions drip and pool.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When they burn the fields,<\/p>\n I taste ash.\u00a0 Tell me<\/p>\n <\/p>\n this isn\u2019t beautiful.\u00a0 I sink<\/p>\n downwards,\u00a0 a red moon<\/p>\n <\/p>\n paling and losing its breath,<\/p>\n words coming from nowhere.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Write it like revelation:<\/p>\n this white, white light.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jennifer A. McGowan<\/strong> has published poetry and prose in many magazines and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic, including\u00a0Pank<\/em> and The Rialto<\/em>. Her chapbooks are available from Finishing Line Press and her first collection is from Indigo Dreams. Her website can be found at the unimaginatively-but-accurately-titled http:\/\/www.jenniferamcgowan.com<\/a> .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Secretary of God Our Lord has often revealed his secrets to the world through women.\u00a0 \u2013Christine de Pisan These are not my words. I drank God straight from the well. I move through hours. Predictions drip and pool. When they burn the fields, I taste ash.\u00a0 Tell me this isn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2015-poetry-picks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9622"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9646,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9622\/revisions\/9646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}