Text - by
I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…
national poetry day 2016
Am Bogsa-Litrichean - by
Dh’fhan mo litir ris a’ phosta,
/ oidhche Shathairne, oidhche Dhòmhnaich,
/ ràinig i Dùn Èideann, chaidh a fosgladh,
/ sheas i greiseag air a’ phiàna;
/
/ Ach…
from Lochaline Stores - by
Nothing can be hidden from Lochaline Stores,
/ Supposing the Grocer’s has eyes and ears:
/ Not an addiction to scratch cards or whisky,
/ Not…
Letter - by
Here is a letter
/ come across the ocean
/ over the back of a world
/ curved like a whale.
/ I unwrap it, like tissue,
/ and sentences…
Cracking the Code - by
When we feed nuts
/ to the squirrel
/ at our back door
/ he seems remarkably clever
/ to come back for more.
/ Yet if, after day one,
/ he…
Answermachine - by
Eh amna here tae tak yir caa:
/ Eh’m mebbe aff at thi fitbaa,
/ Eh mebbe amna here at aa
/
/ but jist a figment…
Invitation - by
Open house for crocodiles
/ Dress Code : Wear smiles
/ Juicy children for tea!
/ R.S.V.P.
/ …
it was this big! - by
it was this big!
/ the child tells her mother,
/ on the phone…