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The White Owl
Clearing from the nocturnal fields
like the white owl, memory seized
us after we sang exile’s bitter
herbs and drank the turbulent wine
that hurt us as your son, mourning
his mother’s sudden death, rejected you, tearing up the cheque you gave him.
You left. Like the impeccable
snow reflecting our inner peace, all too suddenly, his striated eyes turned inwards, a soaring whiteness,
barely spot-streaked, night-gliding,
with wind-harnessed wings, crossed our road, shearing our darkness.
Commended sonnet at the Stanza Competition Read Out at the Southbank Centre on National Poetry Day in London October 2014. Originally published in Resilience.
Bilman’s poetry has been published in two collections, A Woman by a Well and A Woman by a Well and Resilience. Her poems have appeared in The London magazine, Battersea Review, The Linnet’s Wings, Lakeview literary journal, Orbis, Offshoots, Hunger Mountain, Ydgrasil, Iodine, The Inspired Heart Anthologies, Salzburg Poetry Review, among others.
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