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Likeness<\/strong><\/p>\n Paint cakes the bristles in thick lumps <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Michael Bennett<\/strong> was born in 1987 and grew up in Suffolk. His short fiction and poetry have been published by Litro, The Lampeter Review<\/em>, Jon McGregor\u2019s The Letters Pag<\/em>e, and several online journals. When not writing, he plays the viola, paints, and makes things out of paper. Outdoors, he tries to learn the names and ways of plants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Likeness Paint cakes the bristles in thick lumps It tears It pulls It refuses to detach The sink bleeds slowly In slate grey In Blue Lake In Red Ochre In Yellow Light On the table the painting lies Fields are blocks Skies are bare Trees are lines The brush won\u2019t paint 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-9751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751","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=9751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9754,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9751\/revisions\/9754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt tears
\nIt pulls
\nIt refuses to detach
\nThe sink bleeds slowly
\nIn slate grey
\nIn Blue Lake
\nIn Red Ochre
\nIn Yellow Light
\nOn the table the painting lies
\nFields are blocks
\nSkies are bare
\nTrees are lines
\nThe brush won\u2019t paint
\nThe knife is ready
\nTo scratch life into oil<\/p>\n