Headland - by
A loudspeaker on a car proceeds slowly up the far quay
regrets
The Traveller Has Regrets - by
The traveller has regrets
/ For the receding shore
/ That with its many nets
/ Has caught, not to restore,
/ The white lights…
Suddenly - by
I don’t quite know what to say, / what I should say. / I wish I’d told you / all…
Thrawn Kate - by
We gaed thegither through the rye
/ As gloaming dusked the dell,
/ He clamb the dyke, I wadna try,
/ And sae I said farewell.
/ I…
Parting - by
i.m. Julie Betty Rowan
/
/
/ Early autumn the school trunk would re-appear
/ as if to say summer was over, time for my sister…
The Legless Man - by
(The Dark Side)
/
/ My mind goes back to Fumin Wood, and how we stuck it out,
/ Eight days of hunger, thirst and…
Going without Saying - by
i.m. Joe Flynn
/
/ It is a great pity we don’t know
/ When the dead are going to die
/ So that, over a last…
Things - by
There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public.
/ There are worse things than these miniature betrayals,
/ committed or endured or…
‘Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd’ - by
Thug mise dhut biothbhuantachd
/ is dè thug thu dhòmhsa?
/ Cha tug ach saighdean
/ geura do bhòidhchid.
/ Thug thu cruaidh shitheadh
/ is treaghaid na dòrainn,
/ domblas an…
Nettles - by
O sad for me Glen Aora,
/ Where I have friends no more,
/ For lowly lie the rafters,
/ …
Grief - by
What ails you, you puir auld body?
/ What gars you greet sae sair?
/ Hae you tint the…
Last Night, I Should Have Driven Straight Home - by
Today the breakers are clear,
/ sharp, sure in the sun.
/
/ And out there, in the squint of distance,
/ the waves…