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Caroline Bird

Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast

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A Falconer Just Knows the Falcon Will Come Back

I think it comes from the ant in the pounce thing. A falconer just knows. I wouldn't want to be one of the people who know that your lover will come back, because i don't like the sound of that person. It's not often i really want a hog the speaker of a poem, but i do on this occasion. And she says, say, miss miss, like i'm asking god a question. Then it's a tragic figure standing in a field with her arm raised as if she is asking god for help. If my arm gets tired, i'll switch arms. But that miss miss is, oh, please. You must make of it what

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