Juice<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n All through Tuesday the air smelled like one big orange slice<\/p>\n as if l could dip my fingers in the bedroom wall I could eat all the oranges I wanted: and I was pregnant by mistake.<\/p>\n It was like I was sick and oranges were the cure. next to headlines like Drugged and Raped and My Amazing Sex … with a Wall!<\/p>\n that I could skim while I pressed my thumb nail to make a hole big enough to suck out all the juice.<\/p>\n I could just put my mouth to the rind and keep going <\/p>\n ‘Juice’ won First Prize in the 2019 Newcastle Poetry Competition.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juice All through Tuesday the air smelled like one big orange slice as if l could dip my fingers in the bedroom wall and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[604,605,388,603,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2847,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nand bring them back coated in syrup.<\/p>\n
\nI was twenty-one and home for the summer
\nand my dad \u00b7was dead and love was oranges
\nand the dark red post-box
\nrusting on the corner of the street<\/p>\n
\nOranges and women’s magazines with names like
\nTime for a Break<\/em> and Chat<\/em> that had spa day giveaways<\/p>\n
\nby Jack the Ripper’s Ghost! and Married to my Mother!<\/p>\n
\ninto another orange globe. I didn’t even need to look up<\/p>\n
\nuntil there was nothing left inside.<\/p>\n