The Average Length of a Skylark’s Songflight is Two Minutes

by K. Blair

You ask me a question. The answer is lost as I roll down the window to listen to the skylarks. Birds who still sing while they're being hunted. Isn't it fascinating? The desperate song of the fearful.

K.Blair (she/they) is a proud member of London Queer Writers and helps to run and host their LGBTQ+ spoken word night, SPEAK =. They have recently been published in Opia magazine, From the Farther Trees, HAD and Wretched Creations magazine. Their favourite band is The Mountain Goats, their favourite ice cream flavour is mint choc chip, and her husband didn’t really die in mysterious circumstances, that’s just the way she dresses. Find her in the wild, on Twitter: @WhattheBlair, and Instagram: @urban_barbarian.