with title from Love, Nina<\/em> (BBC One, 2016)<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Salt water jostles my epiglottis <\/p>\n\n\n\n Need ploughs through a field I gargle away the itch in the tonsils accompanying this persistent flu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":381,"featured_media":26634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3401,4429],"tags":[2315,4471,2199,3609,11,4473,4474],"class_list":{"0":"post-26629","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fiction-poetry","8":"category-the-pandemic-and-sexuality","9":"tag-covid","10":"tag-covid-19-2","11":"tag-pandemic","12":"tag-poems","13":"tag-poetry","14":"tag-promiscuity","15":"tag-volition"},"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/381"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26629"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26721,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26629\/revisions\/26721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarshi.net\/inplainspeak\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Has been now for fifteen days
and counting, as I gargle away the
itch in the tonsils accompanying
this persistent flu. Which now
sniffing crossly, I trace back to
that wet, passionate kiss<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\nVolition<\/h5>\n\n\n\n
Over the crop of yield: beliefs
it had taken years to grow<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Cover Image: Photo by Austin Tate<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"