Catherine Benson
Catherine Benson was brought up in Scotland and lives in Bradford.
A children's illustrator as well as poet, Cathy is well known in local literary circles for the warmth and insight of her writing.
SEEING THE HARE
It’s in the leap
the joyful hup and hoist on haunches
the paws up fightyaforit
madmarchness of it,
the watchout thumping back feet of it.
The crouch in the grass stillness
the I’m not really here cunning
the longtwitchiness of ears
full of lark song and buzzard’s mew
the bony skull full of the distance of it.
Spring fever in its eye holds a magic
a mythology, as if it’s come
from some ancient place, offering luck
at seeing it. A once-in-a-blue moon
kind of thing. Getting under your skin.
— Catherine Benson, It Must Have Been a Sunday
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