Streams - by
When we went to the grammar school
/ the teacher said,
/ ‘You A-stream girls
/ will go out in the world
/ and be doctors and lawyers.
/ You…
National Poetry Day 2005
Clone Machine - by
What if we could make clones of ourselves?
/ You wouldn’t have to go to school
/ You could just send your clone
/ All you’d…
Pushing forty - by
Just before winter
/ we see the trees show
/ their true colours:
/ the mad yellow of chestnuts
/ two maples like blood sisters
/ the orange beech
/ braver than…
in hospital - by
I like seeing nurse frieda knitting
/ as I like watching my wife knitting
/ as I liked watching my mother knitting
/ though she was…
Foundation - by
‘What would you put in the foundation stone
/ for future generations?’ ‘A horseshoe,
/ a ballet shoe, a horseshoe crab, a sea-horse,
/ a sheriff’s…
The Voyage - by
And if or when the people’s surge subsides
/ to tourist trickles from this present spate,
/ do not relax or quietly desiccate,
/ do not…
Scotch Astrology - by
Omen
/ In the gloamin.
Am Bucas - by
Anns a’bhliadhna
/ aon air fhichead aon air fhichead,
/ a; cladhach ann a seann làraich,
/ thàinig iad gu bucas
/ làn treallaichean wèidhir is gloinne,
/ le sgàthan…