Life - by
Handbound volume
existence
Remote glen-dwellers - by
Of this monstrously tormented world, we know too much that puts our minds wrong and besides we cannot change it; better perhaps the ignorance of remote glen-dwellers in historyfor whom the news was locala trickling of small events all comprehensible and surelike the sun going down predictably behind a hill that was always there asleep […]
For as Long as - by
For as long
/ As the sun appears…
A Birthday - by
I never felt so much
/ Since I have felt at all
/ The tingling smell and touch
/ Of dogrose and sweet briar,
/ Nettles against the…
Full Stretch - by
and this is where you are watching me before the fire and I am
/ lying with the death-stillness on me…
‘We used to think the universe was made…’ - by
We used to think the universe was made
/ of tiny invisible pin-points of energy, jostling
/ and tumbling and buzzing together, and so,
/ by…
Physics for the unwary student - by
Imagine that you are trying to balance on the surface of an expanding balloon.
This is it (AJ) - by
This ground this dream these myths
/ This time this place this river
/ We broken people, this ugliness, this empty,
/ Not…
Seivin Verses for GMB - by
They are fermin the fower winds:
/ Five grey- stemmed daffodils
/ on the hill abuin Eynhallow
/ that whirlmagig air intil pouer.
/
/ Aa Simmerdim on Flotta…
Borders - by
That sound outside, near Sandyhills bridge,
/ along Barnhourie Burn, a high wild wailing
/ winding down to a long low growl of echo,
/ has…
Blossom - by
There’s this life and no hereafter –
/ I’m sure of that
/ but still…
from ‘a better tale to tell’ - by
politicians must become / better messengers / with a better tale / to tell…