Building Vocabulary - by
Cianalas:
/ Who would have thought
/ I’d have to come
/ so far from home
/ to find a word that perfectly captures
/ the…
language
The First Men on Mercury - by
– We come in peace from the third planet.
/ Would you take us to your leader?
/
/ – Bawr stretter! Bawr. Bawr.
Shetlanrie - by
Some dösna laek wir dialect an dis is what dey say: …
Rooks - by
There, where the rusty iron lies,
/ The rooks are cawing all the day.
/ Perhaps no man, until…
Imph-m - by
When I was a laddie langsyne at the schule,
/ The maister aye ca’d me a dunce and a fule;
/ For somehow his…
coire fhionn lochan - by
lapping of the little waves
/ breaking of the little waves
/ spreading of the little waves
/ idling of the little waves
/
/ rippling of the little…
The Harp of Renfrewshire - by
And on my map is neither wall or fence,
but men and women and their revenue,
As, watching them, I utter into silence
A granary of whispers rinsed in dew.
Ein Haus, nirgends - by
wenn
/ stück
/ für stück
/ glaube
/ von Wortern
/ herunter fehlt
/ was mache
/ ich da
/ ich sammle Silben
/ baue Ihnen
/ ein haus, nirgends…
Wörter - by
Wörter
/ meine Fallschirme
/ mit euch
/ springe
/ ich
/ ab
/
/ Ich fürchte nicht die Tiefe
/ wer euch richtig
/ öffnet
/
/ Schwebt…
Gaet-markers - by
for Gabriel Lalonde, artist, Québec
/
/ At da stert, dey wir a makkin o wirds.
/ Some o da aerliest wis shurley ‘haem’
/ an wirds…
Doves, fig tree and walls - by
High walls, mute, shuttered windows:
/ La Cour Bastide
/ In the shady yard at break
/ in the hubbub of strange language
/ others chalked the grid…
Reading at the Kibble Palace, Glasgow - by
for Richard Price
/
/ The poet kibbled among flowers: acanthus and lilac, the extremely unglaswegian hosted beneath our palace of glass, twined…