excerpt from In Darkest Capital
A Critique of Dialectical Reason
Between Sea and Sky
a new wave of makeup.
The colours run pale-to-torrid.
The collection introduces eye-
coloring: a new liquid-to-
powder formula with a
difference – it glides on
and stays in place for hours.
About this poem
This poem was included in Best Scottish Poems 2017. Best Scottish Poems is an online publication, consisting of 20 poems chosen by a different editor each year, with comments by the editor and poets. It provides a personal overview of a year of Scottish poetry. The editor in 2017 was Roddy Woomble.
