{"id":2467,"date":"2018-02-21T12:01:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/translatingpain\/?p=2467"},"modified":"2018-02-21T12:01:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-21T12:01:56","slug":"chime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/a-bel-abroad\/chime\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Chime’, by Marion Michell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lie in the car, stiff as a bell\u2019s tongue, and just as mute. Pain in aspiration stage \u2013 still hoping I\u2019ll hurl myself against walls, eager to chime.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a blurry episode give looking another go. Burgess Park is not itself right now: tiny, lifeless, the green of grass and foliage moulded in the same garish tones. Clouds, birds, a plastic sun, tacked on a smudge of blue. We too minuscule and stuck mid-move in a scale-model some architect should have improved.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bed, at long last. Limbs scattered like mikado sticks; palms so painful they seem large as cities. Must have crashed across the continent, one hand throbbing in Reykjavik, the other limp in the Aegean Sea. Each crumple in my sheet a mountain ridge or carved out canyon, nuzzling the gash of me. A chore to breathe.<\/span><\/p>\n

Days shivering in sleety weather zones. I pine for hot. PEMalaise me not!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"This<\/p>\n

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