Quinn by Em Strang

Author:Em Strang
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: poetry;poetic;redemption;forgiveness;prison;murder;guilt;responsibility;Max Porter;Grief is the Thing with Feathers;Lanny Stone;Bird-Woman;Saltire Poetry Book of the Year;Horse-Man;Fitzcarraldo Editions Novel Prize
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Published: 2022-12-21T12:45:02+00:00

As a child, it always seemed to me that animals knew how to discern safety from danger, right from wrong, yes from no. It was not true, of course, but I believed that they inhabited a kind of ease and freedom that was unfamiliar to me. When I look back now, I realise that what they gave me was hope.

‘Sure,’ I said, but I was not.

I walked around the side of the smelly yard, past the small, rotting wooden stable where the ponies sometimes sheltered from the wind and rain. It was made with a light brown wood, probably pine, but in the dusk, it looked dark and sombre.

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