The Peregrine
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a reading from the Peregrine, winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize. The first bird I searched for was the Nightjar, which used to nest in the valley. Its song is like the sound of a stream of wine spilling from a height into a deep and booming cask. It is an odorous sound, with a bouquet that rises to the quiet sky in the glare of day. It would seem thinner and drier, but dusk mellows. It gives it vintage. If a song could smell, this song would smell of crushed grapes and almonds and oakwood. The sound spills out and none of it is lost. The whole would brims with it. Then it stops suddenly unexpectedly, but the ear hears it still a prolonged and fading echo, draining and winding out among the surrounding trees.