Submarine - by
/ I marched along the cliff
/ looking for insights to clear my thick head
/ and saw a submarine surfacing down in the Firth
/
/ rising
/ shaking…
ships & boats
The Old Nobby - by
My hull is leaking like a sieve,
/ The paint is flaking off my hatches,
/ My heart’s not worn upon my sleeve
/ (But on…
Aald Boat - by
Doo minds dee, whan da wind stöd wast,
/ I’d lay twa linns, and rin dee doon,
/ An tak a stane, an step…
Twin-Screw Set – 1902 - by
Week after week I watched the darlings growing
/ Like two strange children in an orphan home,
/ Aft from the thrust block to…
from Lifeboat Disaster - by
All this second night
/ the wind drops slates into gardens
/ bends steel radio masts at the chimney
/ smashes their teeth on…
Sea Poppy 2 - by
A concrete poem made from the names of boats.
McAndrew’s Hymn - by
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
/ An’, taught by time, I tak’ it so…
Where Go the Boats? - by
Dark brown is the river,
/ Golden is the sand.
/ It flows along for ever,
/ With…
from Seeker, Reaper - by
She’s a solan, she’s a tramper, she’s a sea-shaker,
/ she’s a hawk, she’s a hammer, she’s a big-sea-breaker,
/ she’s a falcon, she’s…
The Charming Nancy - by
She is out there somewhere,
/ creaking in the swell
/ of the green lough water,
/ oozing sugar
/ and black-market nicotine
/ into the river’s vein.
/
/ She stirs herself…