{"id":5064,"date":"2022-10-27T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T07:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=5064"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:51:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:51:26","slug":"linda-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/linda-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Curlew<\/span>Linda France<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

I watch the way you want to reach the end<\/p>\n

before you\u2019ve begun. Here there is only this<\/p>\n

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egg and our sitting in shifts to keep it warm,<\/p>\n

at the mercy of weather, another bird\u2019s hunger.<\/p>\n

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Trust me, you must go to unknown places<\/p>\n

and stay inside your body while you try.<\/p>\n

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Look at me being bird. Why is being human so hard?<\/p>\n

I see you \u2013 fragile, fierce. What if every single day<\/p>\n

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was your only chance of incubating what wants<\/p>\n

to be born and that was all you had to do \u2013 be there<\/em> \u2013<\/p>\n

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what you were made for, enough to make a stone sing?<\/p>\n

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From Startling<\/em> (forthcoming, New Writing North)<\/p>\n

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Linda France<\/strong>\u00a0is winner of the 2022 Laurel Prize for environmental poetry with The Knuklebone Floor <\/em>(Smokestack, 2022). She has written ten full-length poetry collections including The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club<\/em>\u00a0(Bloodaxe 2005) and Reading the Flowers<\/em>\u00a0(Arc 2016). Her latest collection is Startling<\/em>\u00a0(New Writing North & Faber 2022).<\/p>\n

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I watch the way you want to reach the end before you\u2019ve begun. Here there is only this   egg and our sitting in shifts to keep it warm, at the mercy of weather, another bird\u2019s hunger.   Trust me, you must go to unknown places and stay inside your body while you try.   […]<\/p>\n

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