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The Colourist

Tom Hubbard

It wis the licht he desired:
The mellin pinks o the stane,
At Cassis, that myndit him o Mull;
But here wis flesh upon the bane,
And by unglowerin gods sae fired
That he lauched aff the hamewart pull.

A luve-bed in his studio
Celebrates auldest alliance:
A winnock apen ti the sea
Lats in the Mediterranean dance
O air and virr and the echo
O aa that Scotland’s yit ti be.


Tom Hubbard

from The Chagall Winnocks (Grace Note Publications, 2011)

Reproduced by permission of the author and Grace Note Publications.

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Tom Hubbard

Tom Hubbard is a university lecturer, bibliographer, editor and a poet who writes in both English and Scots.
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