{"id":21133,"date":"2013-06-25T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T18:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=21133"},"modified":"2013-06-23T20:35:41","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T08:35:41","slug":"tuesday-poem-more-about-sparrows-an-excerpt-from-thornspell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/25\/tuesday-poem-more-about-sparrows-an-excerpt-from-thornspell\/","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Poem: More About Sparrows&#8212;An Excerpt from &#8220;Thornspell&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/new-review-for-thornspell\/thornspellcover_small-6\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4381\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4381\" title=\"thornspellcover_small\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"140\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1.jpg 140w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/thornspellcover_small1-106x150.jpg 106w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a><em>&#8220;&#8230; He turned away, kicking through a deeper drift, and saw<\/em><br \/>\n<em>that there was a girl standing beneath the bare crown of an<\/em><br \/>\n<em>elder tree. A sparrow fluttered into the branches, followed<\/em><br \/>\n<em>by another, and then a third, until there was a small flock of<\/em><br \/>\n<em>them preening and fluttering their feathers above her head.<\/em><br \/>\n<em>Her chemise and skirt, brown as the sparrows, blended with<\/em><br \/>\n<em>the dreary colors in the garden&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ from <em>Thornspell<\/em>, Knopf, 2008<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>I have been posting\u00a0 few poems on sparrows since I <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/06\/04\/tuesday-poem-i-meant-it-to-be-a-poem-about-sparrows-a-collaboration-between-artist-claire-beynon-poet-helen-lowe\/\">completed the ekphrastic poetry series <\/a>because, as I said last week on Twitter, &#8220;I&#8217;m into sparrows right now.&#8221; Just to mix things up a bit for today, I thought I&#8217;d include an extract from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thornspell.info\/\"><em>Thornspell<\/em><\/a>, which features&#8212;yes, you&#8217;ve guessed it&#8212;sparrows. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2011\/08\/30\/tuesday-poem-enchantress-of-numbers-by-helen-rickerby\/tuespoem\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-7519\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7519\" title=\"TuesPoem\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/TuesPoem.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a>To read the featured poem on the <strong>Tuesday Poem Hub<\/strong> and other great poems from fellow Tuesday poets from around the world, click <a href=\"http:\/\/tuesdaypoem.blogspot.com\/\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a> or on the <strong>Quill<\/strong> <strong>icon<\/strong> in the sidebar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8230; He turned away, kicking through a deeper drift, and saw that there was a girl standing beneath the bare crown of an elder tree. A sparrow fluttered into the branches, followed by another, and then a third, until there was a small flock of them preening and fluttering their feathers above her head. 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