Dream Calendar - by
/ Red neon burns
/ on brickwork: Tyres & Exhausts.
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/ As if we didn’t know.
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/ The hunt’s livener
/ outside the Tontine.
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/ A trail of port in the…
Best Scottish Poems 2005
A Calendar of Hares - by
/ At the raw end of winter
/ the mountain is half snow, half
/ dun grass. Only when snow
/ moves does it become a hare.
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/ If…
What is difference? - by
It
/ is a jet-
/ black fan from Galicia and it
/ opens with a hard lacq-
/ uered snap. Look. One side is painted,
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/ a
/ sudden start
/ of…
The Words - by
… no by breid alane but by ilka wurd …
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/ There’s this need to make utterance …
Miniature Delights - by
You in your new cranberry sweater, glasses askew
/ reading about James Bond then Elgar.
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/ Being nobody, at home with all the lamps…
Lament - by
So you are going away
/ damn you
/ and me to stay
/ to face
/ November and December
/ all alone
/ north wind blowing
/ rough sea flowing through
/ green days of…
Violets - by
Lingering like the last of the light
/ in the Schlossgarten at Erlangen
/ suddenly seeing a bed of them by the fountain
/ I remembered…
For the Opening of the Scottish Parliament, 9 October 2004 - by
Open the doors! Light of the day, shine in; light of the mind, shine out!
/ We have a building which is…
For January - by
Blast drafts rapid ease in stone
/ a man harps lame in the tongue
/ repeating place-holder words
/ forgotten as uttered
/ by an ear sewn back…
Entrance - by
¾ of a century gone
/ and the place and the men
/ under ground how can
/ I say what in truth
/ that work was? Picture
/
/ the…
touching your face - by
with that
/ silence
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/ it creates
/ allowing
/
/ and
/ trusting
/
/ the allowed;
/ all that’s
/
/ been said
/ and is saying
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/ this time
/ breath
/
/ held
/ between us
/
/ each time
/ familiar
/
/ each time
/ new…
Baines His Dissection - by
i.m. Sir John Finch (1626-1682) and Sir Thomas Baines (1622-1680)
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/ For Donny O’Rourke
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/ 1 A Procession
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/ For hours now: a little scraping…