"on witnessing the murder of two wild pigeons" by Daniel Findell

the walk the walk the grass the sky the blue the trees the oaks the birches the talking the gravel the mud the stones the crunch the talking the walk the walk the nature the flowers the clouds the blue the sun the rocks the ploughman’s the flask the whiskey the jokes the laughing the walk the walk the hills the woodland the trees the oaks the birches the path the crunch the snap the rustling the leaves the twigs the weeds the walk the walk the clearing the grass the sky the trees the pause the listening the cooing the chirping the cooing the clicking the cooing the clicking the pause the cooing the bang the rustling the flapping the rustling the fear the sky the birds the clouds the blue the bang the bang the bang the bang the bang the bang the bang the falling the falling the sky the grass the thud the thud the smoke the silence

Daniel Findell (he/him) is a poet from Liverpool, UK. He has had work published by magazines such as The Cloudscent Journal, Swim Press and CAKE Magazine, amongst others, and won the inaugural Literary Lancashire Award Prize for Poetry in 2019. He currently resides in Lancaster, following completion of an MA in Creative Writing at Lancaster University in 2022, and can be regularly found performing at poetry events across the north-west of England.