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the jackdaws...

...clattered into the pane

like a meteorite of feathered rubbing,

beak and claw ensuring 

the whole room lifted an inch before rushing to the window,

now flecked with crimson loss and hairline fractures,

a scream trapped tight behind the teeth of a child.

◄ shard

arborio ►

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Laura Taylor

Thu 5th May 2016 11:28

Ooo this is great too! We once had a gull fly slap bang into our kitchen window, leaving behind a perfect waxy imprint of its whole body, with its head turned to the side. Didn't wash the windows for months after that.

Perfect: the whole room lifted an inch before rushing to the window.

Yes!

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Stu Buck

Tue 3rd May 2016 14:16

cheers ray! to be called hitchcockian is quite a thing.

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raypool

Tue 3rd May 2016 10:49

In a class of its own Stu for sheer descriptive lines - perfectly captured like a Hitchcock moment.

Ray

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Stu Buck

Sat 30th Apr 2016 20:05

cheers both. we have a plague of jackdaws in the village and our house has huge windows. its a match made in heaven (or hell i suppose for the jackdaw)

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John Bastard

Sat 30th Apr 2016 14:18

your final line here is breathtaking.

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