{"id":10755,"date":"2022-05-06T08:36:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartpoetry.art\/?p=10755"},"modified":"2022-05-06T08:53:42","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T07:53:42","slug":"home-thoughts-from-abroad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2022\/05\/06\/home-thoughts-from-abroad\/","title":{"rendered":"Home Thoughts From Abroad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that you have a rather odd way<\/p>\n<p>Of showing affection when you are apart<\/p>\n<p>I would not call it odd but just loving<\/p>\n<p>What do you do<\/p>\n<p>We photograph our bums and send the results<\/p>\n<p>To each other via our phones<\/p>\n<p>Is that not a little risky<\/p>\n<p>One of you might send it to the wrong person<\/p>\n<p>I do not think that they would worry as bums<\/p>\n<p>Are pretty commonplace these days<\/p>\n<p>They are seen as objects of humour<\/p>\n<p>How did it start<\/p>\n<p>It started when Jane went to Blackpool<\/p>\n<p>We were missing each other dreadfully<\/p>\n<p>There were no mobile phones in those days<\/p>\n<p>We chatted on the land lines but it seemed distant<\/p>\n<p>And then one morning a letter arrived for me<\/p>\n<p>It has a Blackpool postmark<\/p>\n<p>I opened it and inside found a photograph of Jane<\/p>\n<p>In her bathroom at the hotel<\/p>\n<p>She had covered herself with a pastel towel<\/p>\n<p>But her bare bum was reflected fully in the mirror<\/p>\n<p>It was the nicest gift that I had ever received<\/p>\n<p>As prior to that I had not seen her naked<\/p>\n<p>The message was clear as she was not only<\/p>\n<p>My best friend but was soon to be my lover<\/p>\n<p>Since that date whenever we are apart<\/p>\n<p>We send each other naked bum photographs<\/p>\n<p>Both for a safe journey and a safe return<\/p>\n<p>This morning Jane left for the West Country<\/p>\n<p>And without thinking we shared photographs<\/p>\n<p>I will be meeting Jane in Bath on Sunday<\/p>\n<p>As I am travelling in a couple of days time<\/p>\n<p>We will be staying overnight at a hotel<\/p>\n<p>Before we return to our blue coastal home<\/p>\n<p>As normal I will be reading Browning<\/p>\n<p>And will be using a photo of Jane&#8217;s bum<\/p>\n<p>As a decorative bookmark<\/p>\n<p>Jane&#8217;s bookmark reads as follows<\/p>\n<div><em>Oh to be in England<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Now that April&#8217;s there<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>And whoever wakes in England<\/em><\/div>\n<div><em>Sees some morning unaware<\/em><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>She used to use a photograph of my bum<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>But lost it at Paddington station some years ago<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>S<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I hear that you have a rather odd way Of showing affection when you are apart I would not call it odd but just loving What do you do We photograph our bums and send the results To each other via our phones Is that not a little risky One of you might send it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10755"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10759,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10755\/revisions\/10759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}