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Avocet<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n You look like a bird making the best <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sean\u00a0Magnus\u00a0Martin<\/strong> won the 2015 Battered Moons poetry competition. He was also published in Bath Spa University’s\u00a02017 MA anthology,\u00a0Plume.\u00a0<\/em>His first pamphlet\u00a0Flood-Junk\u00a0<\/em>will be released with Against the Grain Press in May 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Avocet \u00a0 You look like a bird making the best of a bad situation \u2013 someone stole your legs and replaced them with a pair of blue-grey stilts that seem to have autonomy. A gust of wind buffets white feathers and you teeter but hold your balance, inclining your head to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15486"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15639,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15486\/revisions\/15639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nof a bad situation \u2013 someone stole
\nyour legs and replaced them with
\na pair of blue-grey stilts that seem
\nto have autonomy. A gust of wind
\nbuffets white feathers and you teeter
\nbut hold your balance, inclining
\nyour head to the water.
\nThat upturned bill you use to scythe
\nthe surface in wide arcs, has exotic
\nelegance that looks amiss among
\nthese redshanks and shelducks,
\nmore akin to the sacred ibis.
\nSo I picture you in antiquity, wading
\nbeside the slave barge of a pharaoh,
\na hieroglyph made manifest.<\/p>\n