From a landscape in April
Snowflake grinds against snowflake.
Grass creaks like old furniture.
I spread silence on the fields.
I bring home thick squares of it
to hang on my noisy walls.
Robin Fulton Macpherson
Snowflake grinds against snowflake.
Grass creaks like old furniture.
I spread silence on the fields.
I bring home thick squares of it
to hang on my noisy walls.
From The Thing that Mattered Most: Scottish poems for children edited by Julie Johnstone (SPL/B&W, 2006)
Reproduced by permission of the author.
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