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Smokeless Zone<\/strong><\/p>\n Without chimney pots would be written out as cheap housebreaker. and stark posters ask mistaken for sleighs. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Whitethorn at Christmas<\/strong><\/p>\n Low canal bridges, Whitethorn denies This morning a heron will I go gentle I will in me bollix.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mick Corrigan<\/strong> lives in Ireland with Trish his lifer and several devious dogs. His debut collection Deep Fried Unicorn<\/em> was published in 2014 by Rebel Poetry Ireland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Smokeless Zone Without chimney pots the sooty mythology of Father Christmas would be written out and B&E escapades redefine Santa as cheap housebreaker. Milk and biscuits would be daubed with anti-theft paint and stark posters ask “have you seen this reindeer team?” Dogs would bark at vans mistaken for sleighs. Neighbourhood vigilantes […]<\/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":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twelve-days-of-christmas-2015"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886","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=9886"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23967,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9886\/revisions\/23967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nthe sooty mythology
\nof Father Christmas<\/p>\n
\nand B&E escapades
\nredefine Santa<\/p>\n
\nMilk and biscuits would be daubed
\nwith anti-theft paint<\/p>\n
\n“have you seen this reindeer team?”
\nDogs would bark at vans<\/p>\n
\nNeighbourhood vigilantes
\nwould aim for the skies<\/p>\n
\nNeil Fulwood<\/strong> is co-editor, with David Sillitoe, of More Raw Material: work inspired by Alan Sillitoe<\/em> (Lucifer Press, 2015), an anthology of prose, poetry, photography and artwork featuring 52 contributors, which took a year to bring to fruition. Neil intends to have a quiet Christmas, a drunken New Year, then undertake something equally time-consuming and over-ambitious in 2016<\/p>\n
\nChrist the tiger
\nprowling, amber eyed,
\nin patchy winter snow.
\nThe fetch and carry
\nof frugal life,
\nstilled to a single
\nfrozen breath.<\/p>\n
\nsnug whispering stone
\noffers hollow shelter
\nto the apostate,
\nor Judas,
\nseeking a suitable tree.<\/p>\n
\nthe bowed head, bended knee
\ngospel of submission,
\nsinging instead a pagan joy
\nsunlight, moonlight, fertility,
\nwide eyed and bare arsed
\nbeneath drifting dandelion seed.<\/p>\n
\nin the blue eye of winter,
\nbegging the question;<\/p>\n
\nin to that good night?<\/p>\n