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innocence

How to burn a woman - by Claire Askew

{ Poem }

You will not need kindling.
I think I’ll go up quick
as summer timber, my anger
big and dry as a plantation
that dreams of being paper:

All my words - by Regi Claire

{ Poem }

I imitated pitch perfectly, declined with
authority and wondered why people only
stared.

no angel - by Magi Gibson

{ Poem }

(After Judge Ian Starforth Hill described a nine year old rape victim
/ as “not exactly an angel herself” and gave…

Last dip of the year - by Ian Abbot

{ Poem }

Her body was as shy as berries when she stepped
/ as neatly as a hind out of the bush
/ she had unrobed…

The Volunteer - by E. Alan Mackintosh

{ Poem }

I took my heart from the fire of love,
/ Molten and warm not yet shaped clear,
/ And tempered…

Spring - by Gerard Manley Hopkins

{ Poem }

Nothing is so beautiful as Spring –
When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush;
Thrush’s eggs look little low heavens, and thrush
Through the echoing timber does so rinse and wring
The ear, it strikes like lightnings to hear him sing.

Nuair a bha sinn òg - by Iain Mac a’ Ghobhainn
Iain Crichton Smith

{ Poem }

Nuair a bha sinn òg bhiodh uisge ann,
/ is sinn a’ bualadh chlachan air na pòlaichean
/ telegraf gun stad.
/
/ Bhiodh aon each ’na…

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