
Caroline Bird
Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast
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Why Did I Let Her Go?
This is a woolly glove. A falconer normally wears this big leather gauntlet, which stops em from in hurt. But that's not happening with the speaker. She's getting hurt. And she'll take a bit of tallon pain to get that. It just makes her sound kind and sad. Amidst all the cleverness and invention, that simple line here, it's, why did i let her go? So awful. I think yesif it rains, she might come back because it's tough. It's not so nice out there. Is that bad? You agree with me, don't you?
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