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prehistoric remains

Broken Arrowheads at Chilmark, Martha’s Vineyard - by Ruthven Todd

{ Poem }

Glint of white quartz on the pale cream sand,
/ Or sparkle of worked stone, red, black or green;
/ The eye, unwillingly trapped,…

Camas Tuath - by Tom Buchan

{ Poem }

Pink sand and sandpipers pink in the setting
/ sun and pink granite and the pink swirl
/ of green waves: no mediterranean relics
/ here,…

A Memory of Death - by Alan Bold

{ Poem }

Nineteen fifty six was a momentous year,
/ The year of Suez…

CSI - by Lindsay Macgregor

{ Poem }

A dyke like her who’s been around the block
/ a bit has heard it all before. Volcano, somewhere
/ near the Tropics, unexpectedly…

The Water - by Judith Taylor

{ Poem }

River names are the oldest,
/ the first things in a landscape.
/ So many times they simply mean The Water.
/
/ And the ones we…

Head of a Young Woman - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Five thousand years between us, and yet
not a moment, it seems – recognition
like that spark you’d know how to strike
from stone.

guthan chalanais - by Aonghas MacNeacail

{ Poem }

1
/ seallaibh sinne
/ dh’èirich às a’ mhòintich
/ far an do chaidil sinn
/ tro linntean dìochuimhn’
/
/ an-diugh nar sgeinean maola
/ gearradh an àile
/
/ 2
/ chunnaic aon t-sùil màthair…

Abernethy - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

Air-psalters and pages of stone
/ Inscribed and Caledonian
/ Under these leaf-libraries where
/ Melodious lost literature
/ Remembers itself! A white
/ Dove climbs on its Columban flight
/ In…

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