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The Spell of the Yukon - by Robert Service

{ Poem }

I wanted the gold, and I sought it,
/ I scrabbled and mucked like a slave.
/ Was it famine…

Dividing Line - by J.O. Morgan

{ Poem }

The blood / of the fish / becoming / the blood / of the bear.

‘Summer’ - by John Clare

{ Poem }

Come we to the summer, to the summer we will come,
For the woods are full of bluebells and the hedges full of bloom,
And the crow is on the oak a-building of her nest,
And love is burning diamonds in my true lover’s breast.

Travelling South, Scotland, August 2012 - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

‘Necessity is not the mother of invention; play is.’
/ Ian D. Suttie
/
/ It gets late early out here
/ in the lacklustre places,
/ wind in…

‘Scotland small?’ - by Hugh MacDiarmid

{ Poem }

Scotland small? Our multiform, our infinite Scotland small?
/ Only as a patch of hillside may be a cliché corner
/ To a fool…

The Moult - by Jen Hadfield

{ Poem }

Shelter in the hoodoos and pluck / your fur – fine smell caught on the heather / and shining reeds…

when the light shifts - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

when a breeze blows / through grasses or branches / light touches the harp…

The Victoria Falls - by Muriel Spark

{ Poem }

So hushed, so hot, the broad Zambesi lies
/ Above the Falls, and on her weedy isles
/ Swing antic monkeys swarm malignant…

I, Lizard, performance artist - by Emily Ballou

{ Poem }

My art is my performance. / My performance is endurance.

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush / I hear the level bee…

The Bee - by Emily Dickinson

{ Poem }

Like trains of cars on tracks of plush / I hear the level bee…

Field-Mouse’s Nest - by John Clare

{ Poem }

I found a ball of grass among the hay / And progged it as I passed and went away; /And…

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