In Days of Darkness - by
Two days before your death, you wrote / There is not much to report from here.
BBC Scotland Poet in Residence 2017
Except for Iain - by
Except for Iain, who looks both found & lost, / already haunted by his own baffled ghost…
Sanctified - by
Scotland where can we find you, / where are you hiding your gallus self?…
Andra on November 30th - by
Saint Andra o the Blessed Beuk, / as Scottish as a Heelan Duke.
Almorness - by
The tide is sidling up to Almorness, / unmet by those returned now north & west / away from here.
Remembering Then, Remembering Now - by
Who are we remembering? / Millennia of the distant, recent dead, / all men, women, children lost to / wars…
Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by
Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…
Diwali, Manchester 2001 - by
I think of windows as I think of caves…
Happiness - by
I’ve made my own Museum of / Happiness, which isn’t built of brick / or stone or wood…
Heart - by
Home is where the heart is / or home is where the art is…
Here’s the Weather - by
Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
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