First time eating emu burgers at the bird sanctuary

_{This poem was first published in the Barbican Young Poets Anthology, 2024.}

Marianne is a queer poet from Peterborough, living in London. She’s Barbican Young Poet (23 & 24) and founder of ‘Thoughtcast Collective’ and was highly commended in the Outspoken Page Poetry Prize, she has upcoming anthology publications with Flipped Eye and Off The Chest Anthology.