Victoria Field

Victoria Field is a writer and poetry therapist working in Cornwall.

Her work has been widely published and she has won many prizes for her poetry, fiction and drama.  She is also co-editor of a textbook on therapeutic writing – ‘Writing Works’ from Jessica Kingsley.

For more information visit:
www.falpublications.co.uk  www.poetrypf.co.uk

Feathers Alarm Me

flying out of pillows
faux-innocent in gutters
latent on the backs of swans
unsafe as aeroplanes
no stewardess even
to point out exits
or serve complimentaries

they repel me with their
curvatures and lightness
an ergonomic breathiness
triggering panic
filling my dreams
with snowstorms
in small glass domes

feathers alarm me
the way they dripped wax
followed slowly
when my son
sank like a stone
with swirling Tchaikovsky
mocking my nightmares
of softness and dying.