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The Knight<\/strong><\/p>\n He smells Lynx-irresistible: but when I\u2019m angry He sounds of prayers, He cares about his saddle and every single time <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Natalie Burdett<\/strong> grew up in the Black Country. She is currently studying for an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her poetry has appeared in MMU\u2019s Avis Magazine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Knight He smells Lynx-irresistible: sweat and leather, dirt, blood, incense, and other people\u2019s sweat but when I\u2019m angry he smells of horse shit. He sounds of prayers, sword strokes, chainmail swagger and idle pious boasts. He cares about his saddle more than me. He\u2019s not home much and every single time he goes […]<\/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-9630","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\/9630","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=9630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9647,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9630\/revisions\/9647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nsweat and leather,
\ndirt, blood, incense,
\nand other people\u2019s sweat<\/p>\n
\nhe smells of horse shit.<\/p>\n
\nsword strokes,
\nchainmail swagger
\nand idle pious boasts.<\/p>\n
\nmore than me. He\u2019s not home much<\/p>\n
\nhe goes off questing
\nI tell him not to bother
\ncoming back.<\/p>\n