Last Lauch
The Minister said it wad dee,
the cypress buss I plantit.
But the buss grew til a tree,
naething dauntit.
Hit’s growan stark and heich,
derk and straucht and sinister,
kirkyairdie-like and dreich.
But whaur’s the Minister?
Douglas Young
The Minister said it wad dee,
the cypress buss I plantit.
But the buss grew til a tree,
naething dauntit.
Hit’s growan stark and heich,
derk and straucht and sinister,
kirkyairdie-like and dreich.
But whaur’s the Minister?
from Naething Dauntit: the collected poems of Douglas Young, ed. Emma Dymock (Humming Earth, 2016)
Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Douglas Young.