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Waving - by Gerda Stevenson

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I took your black fedora
from its hook in the hall and donned it
for you on the doorstep, waving,
as they drove you off into the void.

Lifestream - by Maria Sledmere

{ Poem }

At night I am visited by fish, their tiny bodies
pulled from a book.

Good with our hands - by Leyla Josephine

{ Poem }

There are factories tattooed
across our lands
hidden in the hills.

Èistibh - by Anna Frater

{ Poem }

Feuch an tigeadh guth
tron t-sàmhchair.

Progress - by Douglas Dunn

{ Poem }

There they are, widows of the professoriate
/ Tied to their frail routines, but not unfree
/ Wheeling their shopping zimmers on Market Street;
/ And…

Text - by Imtiaz Dharker

{ Poem }

I am sending a message again.
/ Maybe you can’t hear it
/ through all the noise of lights
/ and the dangerous way things…

Seivin Verses for GMB - by William Hershaw

{ Poem }

They are fermin the fower winds:
/ Five grey- stemmed daffodils
/ on the hill abuin Eynhallow
/ that whirlmagig air intil pouer.
/
/ Aa Simmerdim on Flotta…

The Privacy of Typewriters - by Les Murray

{ Poem }

I am an old book troglodyte
one who composes on paper
and types up the result
as many times as need be.

Twin-Screw Set – 1902 - by William Hutcheson

{ Poem }

Week after week I watched the darlings growing
/ Like two strange children in an orphan home,
/ Aft from the thrust block to…

McAndrew’s Hymn - by Rudyard Kipling

{ Poem }

Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream,
/ An’, taught by time, I tak’ it so…

Here, Or There, Or Elsewhere - by Aislinn Hunter

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Yesterday I went for the second time to the Crystal Palace… It seems as if only magic could have gathered…