Interventions around a city - by
The grandeur of the buildings which were wiped out
may be reconceivable by the sky’s grandeur
The grandeur of the buildings which were wiped out
may be reconceivable by the sky’s grandeur
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 […]
This morning I watched from here
a helicopter skirting like a damaged insect
the Empire State Building,
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, the time, / a line for Paisley?…
The words first appeared on a lamp post
/ on a dirty road between a chip shop
/ and some tired Turkish…
I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…
(For Aberdeen in Spring)
/
/ Glitter of mica at the windy corners,
/ Tar in the nostrils, under blue lamps budding
/ Like bubbles of…
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…
If they should ask what makes the stuff of us
/ We should call up such idle things…
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,…
Out of this ugliness may come
/ some day, so beautiful a flower
/ that men…
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