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Geese

Ian McFadyen

That I choose you or
you choose me to
make our lives together is
a lie:

whatever binds us
is whatever holds this
arrow of grey geese
straight in the sky.

Ian McFadyen

from Tom’s Boat and Other Poems (Peebles Arts Festival, 1996)

Reproduced by permission of the author.

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Ian McFadyenb.1950

Ian McFadyen is a former schoolteacher, now living in Peebles. Raised in West Linton, educated at Peebles High School and the University of Edinburgh, he taught in Tweeddale until his retirement.
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