FLY SINGS
Fly Sings (winner of the 2015 Michael Marks Poetry Illustration award) forms the first installment of a prequel to the deadman and hare stories. It concerns how hare first came to be ‘summoned to the world below’, to look for deadman.
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Fly’s gone to the stars
but that was no good
she went round them all
limped from one to the other
they shone down as always
nothing doing there
Fly’s done with all that
she sees where help lies
sets her track
for the slow-blinking eye
sleek golden sickle
circling the world
Enters hare’s orbit
stumbling in late
to find her turning
already tuned
to fly’s unbroken
beseeching
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