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Glasgow Coma Scale - by Morag Anderson

{ Poem }

First on scene, emergency services
score you six and leave without me.
I tail the silence of blue lights,
abandon the car in the ambulance bay.

Thi loss o thi Westhaven - by Lynn Valentine

{ Poem }

Thi watter taen yous oan a bonnie day,north sea canny as a favourite dug,naething tae fear fae hir bark ir bite.Hir treisure laid bare fir thi takin. Did yous hae a blether afore ye slippit awa,a gaggle afore thi sea claimed yous?A remember ye as thon laddie in class,thi ane that could eyewis mak us […]

from Achanalt - by Donald S. Murray

{ Poem }

The man who made the request stop
for Achanalt never left the train;

from Memorial - by  Alice Oswald

{ Poem }

The first to die was PROTESILAUS / A focused man who hurried to darkness / With forty black ships leaving…

The Sair Finger - by Walter Wingate

{ Poem }

You’ve hurt your finger? Puir wee man!
/ Your pinkie? Deary me!
/ Noo, juist you haud it that wey till
/ I…

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