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Dead Loss - by Bridget Khursheed

{ Poem }

All the trees on the triangle of the shopping centre have been

cut down and then there was no building. Lockdown.

I care. I don’t care. I drive my car

real boy - by Thomas Stewart

{ Poem }

they said
you’re not a real
boy until you cut
the wizard out of the tree

ripe - by Heather H. Yeung

{ Poem }

                   for experiment:                    dissect, slice, scrape, magnify                    what is above (its glories), watch. What are feelingsto this caste (not so pale) of cell wall upon cell wall, death of […]

Pass the Lukewarm Forest - by Colin Herd

{ Poem }

sheer
/ anti-establishment
/ trees…

Three Awkward Ears - by Denise Riley

{ Poem }

ice-burned tongues / clump into celestine’s / eye-blue spar

Strathconon - by Ian A. Olson

{ Poem }

When you took the autumn to London
/ And left me to burrow into winter
/ I said they could pack up Strathconon
/ Box up…

The First Blue Day on the Border - by Will H. Ogilvie

{ Poem }

As I came over the Harden hill
/ A whaup on the moor was whistling shrill
/ In his pride to be first recorder
/ Of…

Birnam Wood - by Grigory Kruzhkov

{ Poem }

When Birnam Wood shall come to Dunsinane / Only an utter simpleton will strain / Their mind and fail to…

Last Lauch - by Douglas Young

{ Poem }

The Minister said it wad dee,
/ the cypress buss I plantit.
/ But the buss grew…

A Walk Through the Gaelic Alphabet - by Angus Dunn

{ Poem }

Walking through the same trees / though in a different language / wading in the long river running / of…

Dignity - by G. F. Dutton

{ Poem }

These young birches
/ shriek green laughter up the hill
/ billow on billow. They
/ stop as he enters. He
/ carries his promised absence
/ carefully and yes
/ he…

when the light shifts - by Thomas A. Clark

{ Poem }

when a breeze blows / through grasses or branches / light touches the harp…

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