Warrior Too
by Jane Murray Bird
You can wrinkle
your weathered nose
at the suburban bungalow
but each time I curled around
a body doubled, unfurled
like a durian in full sweat,
ate nettle leaves, heaved myself
to tree height on my waxed pine
floor and bore down on nine
and a half pounds of animal
then made milk from meat until
they were walking –
I was wild.
your weathered nose
at the suburban bungalow
but each time I curled around
a body doubled, unfurled
like a durian in full sweat,
ate nettle leaves, heaved myself
to tree height on my waxed pine
floor and bore down on nine
and a half pounds of animal
then made milk from meat until
they were walking –
I was wild.
Biography
Jane Murray Bird studied creative writing with the Open University in Scotland, gaining a First Class Honours degree. Her work has appeared in magazines including Magma, Mslexia, Under the Radar, Poets Republic and Freak Circus. She lives in Edinburgh and is equal parts flâneuse and garden hermit.
