{"id":646,"date":"2021-05-23T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T16:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/?page_id=646"},"modified":"2023-03-06T18:35:34","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T18:35:34","slug":"eye-aye-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/index.php\/eye-aye-i\/","title":{"rendered":"Eye, Aye, I"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"441\" src=\"https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/13eeb4ab-de97-4065-8129-c34ad8e9cd22.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/13eeb4ab-de97-4065-8129-c34ad8e9cd22.jpg 640w, https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/13eeb4ab-de97-4065-8129-c34ad8e9cd22-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 85vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Prickly Chairs &#8211; photograph by Royston Hunt <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Eye, Aye, I<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>She relishes this, the two of them together. Outside. Plants and water.<\/p>\n<p>He hands her salt, tequila, wedge of lime. Instructs her. She follows.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It\u2019s kinda neat,\u2019 she says, \u2018having cactuses inside us, and cactuses around us.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He snorts. \u2018Tequila\u2019s made from Agave. It\u2019s a succulent, not a cactus. And the plural is cacti. Cack-<em>tie<\/em>. Eye. Eye.<\/p>\n<p>She takes a slosh of tequila, no salt, no lime. \u2018Aye, aye,\u2019 cap\u2019n.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This isn\u2019t going to work.\u2019 He gets up, leaves his red chair empty.<\/p>\n<p>She stands to follow him, anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Something makes her pause.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s drinking spirits in the day time, but she can <em>hear<\/em> the cactuses speaking.<\/p>\n<p><em>Can\u2019t stand a pedant.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>We\u2019re all succulents, we\u2019re all sisters.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Better off without him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>She\u2019s one of us.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And all the prickles she\u2019s kept inside, all the sharp retorts she\u2019s ever swallowed down, push out like needles through her fleshy, green skin.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" src=\"https:\/\/kathrynclarkwriter.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/aloe-vera-678040_640-e1675363504336.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-857\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prickly Chairs &#8211; photograph by Royston Hunt<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-646","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Prickly Chairs - photograph by Royston Hunt Eye, Aye, I She relishes this, the two of them together. 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