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Pauline Stainer
Hieroglyph
Hieroglyph
Hieroglyph
The moon is paleas a hare’s belly
so what trembles
the alert stillness
of this Egyptian hare
over a ripple of water
into running script?
© 2008, Pauline Stainer
From: Crossing the Snowline
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Northumberland
From: Crossing the Snowline
Publisher: Bloodaxe Books, Northumberland
Pauline Stainer
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1941)
Pauline Stainer has always worked outside the metropolitan poetry community. Yet she won first prize in the Stroud Festival poetry competition in 1984, and has won major awards in several other competitions, including the TLS and the King’\'s Lynn, Cheltenham, Leek, Hastings and York festival competitions. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1987, and came to wider notice with her quiet...
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Hieroglyph
The moon is paleas a hare’s belly
so what trembles
the alert stillness
of this Egyptian hare
over a ripple of water
into running script?
From: Crossing the Snowline
Hieroglyph
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