Time Breaks the Heart - by
Her watch is posted from the south.
/ Its black box ticks the whole way.
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/ The accident happens, the funeral.
/ The flowers fade.
/
/ Grain in…
Best Scottish Poems 2013
In Breton - by
In Breton, they say
/ there’s a word that weaves between
/ green and blue, allowing for
/ haze, precipitation,
/ the burr of distance,
/ the welcome…
1964 - by
Under the gritted lid of winter
/ each ice-puddle’s broken plate
/ cracked to a star. The morning
/ assembling itself into black and white, the…
Sphagnum Moss - by
Sphagnum moss remembers. It recalls
/ the touchdown of each lark that tumbles
/ down upon its surface, the slightness of that weight
/ recorded…
Be the first to like this - by
kicking pine cones down the street
/ climbing the backyard cherry tree
/ lying in new sheets
/ waking in darkness waking to snow
/ how…
from At Maldon - by
Waves beating up against cliffs.
/ Cliffs holding hard against waves.
/
/ …
Miracle - by
He went directly and unhurried and scanned the smattering.
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/ Wingbit snagskin throatlap furthew clawlid eyespit oarfire.
/ Oarfire? No, that’s just dreams talking.
Poem for Roy Batty - by
Whenever neon trickles down
/ to meet a city drain,
/ I think of you on some wet roof,
/ a cobbled son of men –…
Consequential Egg - by
You prefer the murk of details to the vision complete,
/ incident to…
The Ant Swap - by
I bend an ear to your sound, put my knees in the dirt,
/ offer my orifices to you like doorways
/ to…
Rabbie, Rabbie, Burning Bright - by
Atween November’s end and noo
/ there’s really nithin else tae do
/ but climb inside a brindlet coo
/ …
Cat in the Apple Tree - by
When, for the umpteenth time he’s outflitted
/ within paw’s reach of the taunting bird, heart
/ goes out to him – his folly,…