Shadow Boxing It takes much to make a shadow \u2013 to silhouette <\/p>\n Roger Hare<\/a>\u00a0lives in Herefordshire and writes out of what diverts his attention in the world around – whether from history, geology, sociology, biology or biography. His writing has appeared in Anthropocene, SpillWords, Re-Side, Lyrical Aye, Dreamcatcher & Liminal Residency. He can be found on twitter @RogerHare6<\/p>\n This poem was written in response to The Bezzerides Box<\/a>, a creative writing challenge created by Sean O’Brien<\/a> as part of the 2020 Inside Writing<\/a> showcase.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Shadow Boxing It takes much to make a shadow \u2013 as much in 1955 as 1155 or 2755; soul \/ source \/ surface. It takes…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[664,715],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382"}],"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=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.nclacommunity.org\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>
\nIt takes much to make a shadow \u2013 as much
\nin 1955 as 1155 or 2755;
\nsoul \/ source \/ surface.
\nIt takes much to make a shadow \u2013 release of
\npain \/ pleasure \/ purpose.
\nIt takes much to make a shadow \u2013 as much
\nquestion as solution. It takes
\nno time but all time to determine
\nwhether a woman\u2019s is diminutive to a man\u2019s
\nas Governess to Governor or Mistress to Master.<\/p>\n
\nall that\u2019s taken,
\ntaken, taken,
\nto leave behind
\nwhat?<\/p>\n