Gill Horitz has worked in the arts for many years. Her poetry has been published in magazines, including: Writing Women, Mslexia, Smiths Knoll, Frogmore Papers, Tears in the Fence,and a short story in Cheatin’ Heart – Women’s Secret Stories Anthology (Serpents Tale 1998).
Gill was short-listed in the Bridport Prize, 2011 and Cinnamon Press will publish her first Pamphlet, All The Different Darknesses, in 2019. She attends a poetry group in Dorset where she lives, led by Paul Hyland.
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Murmuration
We were in the reed beds
waiting for starlings
when the phone rang
and her voice was blown
by the blue air into my ear,
speaking about the past
which wouldn’t leave her,
a kind of punishment,
she was saying, to be unknown
or alone, the wind
made it hard to hear.
I was still listening at four-thirty
when the air chilled, fell inert
as birds appeared
on the same wavelength
as dusk, accumulating
in swathes, each one
dependent on the nearest.
If she could see what starlings
make of themselves, bound
by their own instinct.
Gill Horitz
Video and final image: January, 2017 at Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset; Photo: Gill Horitz
