{"id":5075,"date":"2022-10-27T08:00:37","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/?p=5075"},"modified":"2022-10-24T20:50:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T19:50:17","slug":"pascale-petit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersrebel.com\/pascale-petit\/","title":{"rendered":"Roe Stag<\/span>Pascale Petit<\/span>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tell me there is a meadow, afterwards,<\/p>\n

that the roe stag will come<\/p>\n

to the top of my garden,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

that the window will cut me<\/p>\n

with glass blades<\/p>\n

of dewy hooves.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That I\u2019ll lay out my doe mask,<\/p>\n

my necklace of icicles,<\/p>\n

onto the deep windowsill.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Tell me the stag will be there<\/p>\n

among nettles and briar, his mouth<\/p>\n

panting, his lungs clear.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That his legs won\u2019t tangle<\/p>\n

in the electric wire<\/p>\n

around my tower.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That if he can\u2019t find his way<\/p>\n

back into the before,<\/p>\n

his horns jewelled<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

with thorns and flowers<\/p>\n

might grow into a tall grove.<\/p>\n

Tell me that even in my solitude,<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

my altar goods laid out<\/p>\n

to the god of woods,<\/p>\n

that this red deer<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

against the steep viridian field<\/p>\n

will sprout a ladder between his tines<\/p>\n

that I can climb.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

That his antlers will be strong<\/p>\n

as my spine, that I will scale<\/p>\n

the rungs of myself<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

out onto the clouded<\/p>\n

chancel of the sky, my body<\/p>\n

slick as a newborn fawn.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

This poem begins with a line by Lucie Brock-Broido and was first published in New Humanist.<\/em><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Pascale Petit\u00a0<\/strong>was born in Paris, grew up in France and Wales and now lives in Cornwall. She is of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. Her eighth collection,\u00a0Tiger Girl<\/em><\/a>, from Bloodaxe in 2020, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and for Wales Book of the Year. A poem from the book won the Keats-Shelley Poetry Prize. Her seventh poetry collection\u00a0Mama Amazonica<\/em>,\u00a0<\/a>published by Bloodaxe in 2017, won the inaugural Laurel Prize in 2020, won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2018, was shortlisted for the Roehampton Poetry Prize, and was a Poetry Book Society Choice.<\/p>\n

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Tell me there is a meadow, afterwards, that the roe stag will come to the top of my garden,   that the window will cut me with glass blades of dewy hooves.   That I\u2019ll lay out my doe mask, my necklace of icicles, onto the deep windowsill.   Tell me the stag will be […]<\/p>\n

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