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imagine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n by Julie Easley<\/em><\/p>\n imagine you had just crossed the sea imagine your kids strapped to your sides imagine that journey, the swell of fear imagine being met by military might imagine the drowning of your spirit imagine the spectacle of media imagine if none of this were true<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" imagine by Julie Easley imagine you had just crossed the seacrashed out of the wavesfell down onto your knees imagine your kids strapped to your sidestheir lives…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":605,"featured_media":14354,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1660],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/605"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14355\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gfdesign.co.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
crashed out of the waves
fell down onto your knees<\/p>\n
their lives wrapped in plastic,
snapped and tagged for all the front pages<\/p>\n
in your mind, the relief of the sand
as your feet hit the ground<\/p>\n
their strength and power transposed onto you
imagine being met by all that force<\/p>\n
no helping hands to keep you afloat
imagine that danger, your desperation<\/p>\n
transmission is live on the 6 o\u2019clock news
the taunting of your torment in full public view<\/p>\n