Rain - by
I love all films that start with rain:
rain, braiding a windowpane
or darkening a hung-out dress
or streaming down her upturned face…
rain
Here’s the Weather - by
Fae stooshie tae fankle tae bouroch tae dreck / we’re steeped in the downpour of dialect.
/ …
A Bush Night - by
I remember the tilt of the deep canvas chairs, and then men
/ sitting idle,
/ And out in the paddocks a hoof…
In the Mid-Midwinter - by
the light comes back
the light always comes back
Chronos - by
A man wi’ a great big beard
/ A met;
/ Said: ‘Don’t be feared
/ If ye get wet.
/
/ Run twenty years
/ On nature’s…
Near Linton Burnfoot - by
Tarred roads, metal cattle-grids and wheel tracks mesh
/ so tightly no land can escape. Tractor ruts
/ cut deep into the grass to…
A Night’s Rain - by
The thunder clap may clatter –
/ The lichtnin’ flare awa’:
/ I’m listenin’ to the water,
/ …
Foo Mony Cubits? - by
The sun’s been tint for weeks. Deid maybe.
/ Likely drooned. Water’s aaplace, teemin doon
/ gutters and branders, rinnin aff the slates,
/ floodin pavements.
The Cloud - by
I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers,
/ From the seas and…
‘Kiss me…’ - by
Kiss me with rain on your eyelashes,
/ come on, let us sway together,
/ under the trees, and to hell with thunder.
/ …
Like T-Rex - by
It felt as if it had rained for centuries
/ Drips fell ding-dong remorseless, over the drowned fields
/ As if summer had…
Rains of Nauru - by
Rain, symbolic of a loss
/ of friend or foe
/ an ally or enemy
/ a chief or commoner
/ a native or foreigner
/ plagued by death
/ signifies a…