{"id":432,"date":"2019-04-08T07:45:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T06:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/?p=432"},"modified":"2019-04-08T08:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T07:52:33","slug":"sue-wallace-shaddad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/2019\/04\/08\/sue-wallace-shaddad\/","title":{"rendered":"Sue Wallace-Shaddad"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Illustration by Stela Brix<\/p><\/div>\n

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Geometry<\/strong><\/h1>\n

I feel boxed in
\ntriangulated
\ncondemned\u00a0to slow
\nspherical\u00a0orbit.
\nI could be a square
\npretending\u00a0to be a rectangle
\nbut\u00a0the isosceles in me
\nwon\u2019t\u00a0have it.
\nMy perpendicular
\nis\u00a0at odds
\nwith\u00a0your diagonal.
\nRight angled, blindsided,
\nI try to fit everything
\ninto\u00a0shape.<\/p>\n

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Previously published in Ink, Sweat and Tears<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sue Wallace-Shaddad is in the first year of the London-based MA in Writing Poetry. Now retired after a long career with the British Council, she is Secretary of Suffolk Poetry Society. She has poems published by Ink, Sweat and Tears, The Dawntreader, Poetry Space, The French Literary Review and in various magazines and anthologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Geometry I feel boxed in triangulated condemned\u00a0to slow spherical\u00a0orbit. I could be a square pretending\u00a0to be a rectangle but\u00a0the isosceles in me won\u2019t\u00a0have it. My perpendicular is\u00a0at odds with\u00a0your diagonal. Right angled, blindsided, I try to fit everything … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-poetry","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/bridges\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}