Thursday, February 1, 2018

Peregrine Falcon Comments

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New blood in the killing-ground,
her scullery,
her boneyard.

I touch the raw wire
of vertigo
feet from the edge.

Her house is air. She comes downstairs
on a turn of wind.
This is her table.

She is arrow.
At two miles a minute
the pigeon bursts like a city.

While we turned our backs
she wasted nothing
but a rose-ringed foot

still warm.
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Gillian Clarke
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Samantha 21 January 2020

Kind of like these poem even if I don’t fully understand it

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Gillian Clarke

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