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This year, I set myself the foolish task of trying to write something every day, and what you see here is the result. None of this is finished, polished, or in any way good. It's usually a few lines at the end of the day when I'm tired, my head's broken, and this nonsense spills out of it onto the page. Feel free to comment away, and if you think anything has any potential then let me know and I might have a go at working on it further.

But hang on, where's the first month? You've ripped us off! I hear you say... Well, yes. I have been writing since the beginning of January, but it's taken me a while to get the blog up, so everything here is a month old.

Wednesday, 27 July 2016

The birdtable

First is the sparrow
Nervous and stuttering
One on lookout, one feeding
Short wings flickering.

Next comes the starling
Boisterous as a teenager
Loud and brash on crescent wings
Squabbling and bolting.

Until with a chatter,
Down swoops the magpie
Too big but determined
cleverly finding an opening.

It's scared off by the jackdaws
Descending in pairs
With a clatter of caws
Strong-beaked and willful.

Last is the pigeon
Slow and grey
Standing in the water tray
Picking at discarded seeds.
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