Interventions around a city - by
The grandeur of the buildings which were wiped out
may be reconceivable by the sky’s grandeur
cities
The Prows o’ Reekie - by
O wad this braw hie-heapit toun Sail aff like an enchanted ship, Drift owre the warld’s seas up and doun, And kiss wi’ Venice lip to lip, Or anchor into Naples’ Bay A misty island far astray Or set her rock to Athens’ wa’, Pillar to pillar, stane to stane, The cruikit spell o’ her […]
Hotel Room, 12th Floor - by
This morning I watched from here
a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
the Empire State Building,
I Lost my Shoes on Rachel Street - by
I lost my shoes on Rachel St.
/ Head lolled back to rest
/ against a pillow of the Mont
/ kiss the foot of the…
Buddy, Can You Spare a Rhyme? - by
Buddy can you spare a rhyme, the time, / a line for Paisley?…
The Glassblower Dances - by
The words first appeared on a lamp post
/ on a dirty road between a chip shop
/ and some tired Turkish…
Text - by
I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…
Home Town Elegy - by
(For Aberdeen in Spring)
/
/ Glitter of mica at the windy corners,
/ Tar in the nostrils, under blue lamps budding
/ Like bubbles of…
The Silver City - by
Yonder she sits beside the tranquil Dee,
/ Kindly yet cold, respectable and wise,
/ Sharp-tongued though civil, with wide-open eyes,
/ Dreaming of hills, yet…
Edinburgh - by
If they should ask what makes the stuff of us
/ We should call up such idle things…
Visiting Winter: a Johannesburg Quintet - by
1. Visiting Winter
/
/ a wee bit frosting
/ by night
/ buys a wheen o
/ sun block
/ Naw, ye’ll no see me
/ back north
/ he hoasts
/ cauld n beery
/
/ 2. Scrap
/
/ Metal,…
Glasgow Street - by
Out of this ugliness may come
/ some day, so beautiful a flower
/ that men…