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A Poem for a Morning

Margaret Tait

I’m out here now
on the roof. Look!
I had to get nearer the sky,
For the city was too full of rooms
And I can’t be content with a window.

It’s too small a thing to accept the ready-made frame.
We builders must keep making our own cities.
Oh, please
Don’t fell the trees
For your city, because I need them for mine.


Margaret Tait

from Margaret Tait: poems, stories and writings, edited with an introduction by Sarah Neely (Carcanet Press, 2012)

originally published in Subjects and Sequences (1960)

© Alex Pirie. Reproduced by permission of the Estate of Margaret Tait and the publisher.

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Margaret Tait1918 - 1999

Margaret Tait was one of Britain’s most unique and individual film makers, producing over 30 films, including a portrait of Hugh MacDiarmid. She also published three books of poetry.
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