Anster Sea Wall - by
I don’t know how long you have been standing
or how many times they put you back together –
Place: Fife & Angus
three fish - by
Box work
Aince Upon a Day - by
Aince upon a day my mither said to me:
Dinna cleip and dinna rype
And dinna tell a lee.
Sainless - by
I hae stuid an hour o the lown midsimmer nicht
/ til twal o the knock i the leelang glamarie-licht
/ by…
In Praise of Balgeddie - by
I.
/ I sing of a spot,
/ Tho’ the warld knows it not,
/ And it’s nae…
Baltic Street - by
/ My dainty lass, lay you the blame
/ Upon the richtfu’ heid;
/ ‘Twas daft ill-luck that bigg’d yer hame
/ …
Wynd - by
In the hours between Stingray and the evening meal, / when the strings of family, place and history / working…
Kirkforthar - by
The sun trickles though calligraphy
/ on the pine-tops and the path
/ becomes a chess board of dark and light,
/ a swithering of midges
/ one…
Shrunkelt - by
There were cobbles then in George Street,
/ whan I wis young, message-laddie
/ til Bob Mackenzie, The Grocer, North Street
/
/ The bike dunted ower…
The Fields o Angus - by
Thro nicht oor machinery roared,
/ spun, beat, powped and chilled
/ the plump rasps juiced for jam.
/ We wrocht or denner broke oor shift
/ syne…
The Thread - by
Jamie made his landing in the world
/ so hard he ploughed straight back into the earth.
/ They caught him by the thread…
The Pool - by
The auld ootside swimmin-pool
/ Absurd next tae muckle sanstane boilins,
/ Survivors o mony storms an gales.
/
/ Its watter,
/ Sic wondrous dark brouns;
/ Velveteen glory
/ O the…