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Read: Feathers & BonesRebecca Faulkner

Rebecca Faulkner
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Rebecca Faulkner is a London-born poet, arts educator, and climate activist. Her poems have been published in Solstice Magazine, Smoke Magazine, Wild Roof Journal, Pedestal Magazine, The Maine Review, On the Seawall, Into the Void, and other journals. She was anthologized in the Best New British and Irish Poets 2019-2021, and was a semifinalist for the 2021 Red Wheelbarrow Prize. Rebecca was a 2021 Poetry Fellow at the Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds a BA in English Literature from the University of Leeds, and a Ph.D. from the University of London. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

 

Feathers & Bones

 

 

There are many carcasses, 

hundreds of thousands falling 

out of the sky in a two-mile 

stretch inland, just in front 

of my house. Over a dozen 

 

 

flycatchers, swallows and warblers, 

a volume of deaths both common 

and sensitive, inexplicable. Before 

dying to reach winter grounds

three billion have been lost 

 

 

mid-flight, damaged, starving, 

until they just couldn’t fly 

any more. The curve-billed 

thrashers, great-tailed grackles 

and white-winged doves know 

 

 

what is happening. Death coming 

at them from all sides, urging 

in a winter sky. To see this 

has given me chills. What little 

is remaining I can’t say.

 

Rebecca Faulkner is London-born children’s rights advocate, climate activist and poet. Her recent work has appeared in Passengers, Quarantine Zine and Indolent Books’ What Rough Beast. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the University of London. Faulkner lives in Brooklyn, New York with her family.

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