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Fierce Love<\/strong><\/p>\n To be a lyre bird, dove\u2026or pigeon: To write songs of flight in italics the worms that dirt hides. To carry dawn across fields and town, then balance To know heights higher than the highest and graze the skins of frozen lakes. even landlocked limbs. For his touch as a snowy owl, with the dark eyes enough to drown my fears.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sarah James<\/strong> is a poet, fiction writer and journalist. A narrative in poems, The Magnetic Diaries<\/em>,\u00a0 is published by KFS and a collection, plenty-fish,<\/em> with Nine Arches Press this summer. Her d\u00e9but collection, Into the Yell<\/em>, won third prize in the multi-genre International Rubery Book Awards 2011. www.sarah-james.co.uk <\/a><\/p>\n First published in The Magnetic Diaries<\/em>, Knives Forks and Spoons Press, 2015<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fierce Love To be a lyre bird, dove\u2026or pigeon: strong-clawed and sleek-feathered. To write songs of flight in italics against grey skies, and dig out the worms that dirt hides. To carry dawn home in my silky down, spread light across fields and town, then balance stillness in the winter\u2019s stark trees. 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-8876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876","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=8876"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8878,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8876\/revisions\/8878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nstrong-clawed and sleek-feathered.<\/p>\n
\nagainst grey skies, and dig out<\/p>\n
\nhome in my silky down, spread light<\/p>\n
\nstillness in the winter\u2019s stark trees.<\/p>\n
\nbranch, grip the hardest edge of ice<\/p>\n
\nTo see small breaths slowly melt<\/p>\n
\nto ruffle my night face now, softly<\/p>\n
\nof a falcon: fierce, starless and deep<\/p>\n