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Homeschooling - by Carolyn Jess-Cooke

{ Poem }

I’m teaching my children what’s happening
right now, which is to say I’m dredging
an ocean of oil-black sludge into our home

Stetuaes - by Stuart A. Paterson

{ Poem }

Thaim the maist idle at chynge are aye deaved

wi the biggin o idols tae staun owre the lave

o whae heized thaim up by, mebbe fine, maistly no

wi the auld warl we’re bidin in yit, faur ablo.

Dock Leaves - by Roshni Gallagher

{ Poem }

I’m sick of anticipating my own othering.

Thank god for places where people aren’t

Scotland, You’re No Mine - by Hannah Lavery

{ Poem }

Scotland, you’re no mine
(you were no his)
and I don’t want you.

Demerara - by Gerda Stevenson

{ Poem }

Eliza Junor, born 1804, Demerara, died Fortrose, 1861; daughter of Hugh Junor, slave owner from the Black Isle, and an unknown mother, probably a slave, or a ‘free coloured’ woman. Died Fortrose, 1861; won a prize for penmanship at Fortrose Academy. I’ve learned my letters well – my copperplate masts and sailsflow across the page, […]

Inna Calabash - by Lorna Goodison

{ Poem }

Inna calabash
tell them that the baby
that count in them census already
Inna calabash

Curmudgeon - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

He is a man for whom everyone’s a trespasser.
/ Co-existence? He doesn’t believe in it.
/ Give you the time of day? Not…