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Between Geology and Air - by Gerrie Fellows

{ Poem }

Earth pushes up
through our footsoles
air spins us
in its thinning spheres
time flies through us

Life - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

a book of water - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

Handbound volume

midwinter - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

a thread of light

open slowly - by Julie Johnstone

{ Poem }

Box work

On a Birthday - by Marion Angus

{ Poem }

Time, why are you going so fast?
/ I like not furious paces.
/ Milestones glimmer and then are past,
/ …

It’s been - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

It’s been a long time
all the time we’ve spent
and we’ve had such times

Weathering - by Alastair Reid

{ Poem }

In my father’s carved face, the bright eye
He sometimes would look out of, seeing a long way
through all the tree-rings of his history.

Chronos - by Alan Jackson

{ Poem }

A man wi’ a great big beard
/ A met;
/ Said: ‘Don’t be feared
/ If ye get wet.
/
/ Run twenty years
/ On nature’s…

The Mower - by Vicki Feaver

{ Poem }

When I was young and miserable,
/ a misfit and a rebel,
/ almost never out of trouble,
/ desperate to escape school,
/ time dawdled.
/ …

Time Breaks the Heart - by JL Williams

{ Poem }

Her watch is posted from the south.
/ Its black box ticks the whole way.
/
/ The accident happens, the funeral.
/ The flowers fade.
/
/ Grain in…

‘Keeping and forgetting time…’ - by Gael Turnbull

{ Poem }

Keeping and forgetting time,
/ my pulse to your pulse, rhythm and rhyme
/ …

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