Reeds, snake-like, coiled in the mistWhere the low fog drives:The muddy cough of the stream that strivesTo free its throat from the clot of reed,As they fight it out the water and the weed—While the fog, above, takes turn and twist:Men, these are your lives! Wild Geese across the moon:As some hand that unrollsAnd scratches […]
Not crow, eyes calculating
/ my speed, the distance, his time
/
/ not blackbird or thrush
/ in a startled trajectory of flight
/
/ not pigeon, undecided…
Who calls to the dark, / who calls to the wind on / the surface of the water?…
I know that I shall meet my fate
/ Somewhere among the clouds above;
/ Those that I…
The trees are in their autumn beauty,
/ The woodland paths are dry,
/ Under the October twilight the water …
Unattached
/ With no roots
/ With no barrier
/
/ Free as a bird
/ I want to be
/
/ Despite the fears of freedom
/ Despite the vulnerability of the unattached
/ Despite…
Captain Puggle flees his plane
/ Frae Tumshie Airport tae Bahrain
/ Gets the Smiths and their wee wean
/ Brings them aw back hame again.
/
/ Captain…
Magnetic winds from the sun pour in
/ and send our instruments akimbo.
/ Nothing runs like clockwork now.
/ As skeletal clouds unwreathe our exposure,
/ panicky…
I read about him that was given wings.
/ His father fixed those wings to carry him away.
/
/ They carried him halfway home,…
Tinkin on da haert’s topography
/ – heichts wir climmed, jimpit aff a,
/ aa but miracklin wirsels,
/ brinks o banks wir teetered apön –
/ wir…
