{"id":2960,"date":"2018-03-29T22:37:24","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T22:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2018-08-08T11:03:58","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T11:03:58","slug":"seczema-by-isabel-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/2018\/03\/29\/seczema-by-isabel-white\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Seczema&#8217; by Isabel White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">I flirt with my itch.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> By turns it niggles, seduces, pesters;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> as it gapes, festers,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> I reach down,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> don\u2019t dare to look,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> rip legs to shreds with nails, shorn short\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> (but not short enough);<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> viscous red<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> smeared across my calf,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> warm to touch.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> I suppurate for art;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> as if sawed in half,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> shriek a pain.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> I climax;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> vow to abstain\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> in future;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"> fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\"><em>by Isabel White<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: georgia, palatino\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I flirt with my itch. 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