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if these words turn into birds

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Jess Morgan

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let them be dark and waxen

crows at dawn

wings dripping honey and heat

Icarus on fire

too much too fast too close

melting and magnificent

charcoal pooling at my feet

ashes and agony

let these words be a murder

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Artist: Zoe Hawker is a multi-disciplinary student artist working with sculpture, installation, and painting. Her self-reflexive practice aims to decode the absurdities of our current culture.

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