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Eco Cheil, a Vigilante - by Alastair McLeish

{ Poem }

iI saw this fat man.Haw Fatman I says, How’ve ye got 3 caursOn yir lock-block,A big yin, a wee yin an’ a medium sized.The big yin’s for the faimly,The wee yin goes the shoppin.An’ yir medium sized, pearl metallickedTurbo fuckn dieseled?The laddie drives, but mainly It’s for back-up.Back-up? Aye back-up.An’ is your wife as fat […]

Dead Loss - by Bridget Khursheed

{ Poem }

All the trees on the triangle of the shopping centre have been

cut down and then there was no building. Lockdown.

I care. I don’t care. I drive my car

Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

‘Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is.’
/ Ian D. Suttie
/
/ It gets late early out here
/ in the lacklustre places,
/ wind in…

Beaver - by Tom Hubbard

{ Poem }

Eident indwaller o that wilderness
/ Reddin and guidin it fir your domain:
/ Smaa pioneer,…

African Moon - by Koumanthio Zeinab Diallo

{ Poem }

In my village where girls dress
In clothes the color of joy
And dance to the slender sound of the drum

Hedge Sparrows - by Richard Price

{ Poem }

You don’t see many hedges these days, and the hedges you do see
they’re not that thorny, it’s a shame, and when I say a hedge
I’m not talking about a row of twigs between two lines of rusty
barbed wire, or more likely just a big prairie where there were
whole cities of hedges…

Tuna - by Kumalau Tawali

{ Poem }

Tuna you are the mirror of the blue
/ Tuna you are the pain in my veins
/ Tuna you are lord.
/
/ When I set…

Calgary Kitchen, 1955 - by Tom Bryan

{ Poem }

Gutting yellow perch at the sink,
/ her smile came from another age.
/ She had enough soul
/ for me, for fish, for a lineage
/ of…

Imaginary CV - by Tom Bryan

{ Poem }

Like Loppy, our local river tramp
/ his cedar shack festooned with gar jaws,
/ snapping turtle shells. Wood-burning
/ stove, nurturing stew and tar…

Beelzebub Resurfaces - by James Robertson

{ Poem }

A girnin, greitin deil wis I –
/ I wis auld, and feelin aulder.
/ Syne the heatin system burst in Hell:
/ It wis cauld…

Rifle Song - by Gavin Bowd

{ Poem }

for Diana
/
/ We know that the taiga
/ still hides your stripes.
/ We will grind your paws
/ to aphrodisiac.
/
/ Lovers demand it.
/ our skins are lonely,
/ and girls…

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