Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight - by
One ran,
/ her nose to the ground,
/ a rusty shadow
/ neither hunting nor playing.
/
/ One stood; sat; lay down; stood again.
/
/ One never moved,
/ except to…
One ran,
/ her nose to the ground,
/ a rusty shadow
/ neither hunting nor playing.
/
/ One stood; sat; lay down; stood again.
/
/ One never moved,
/ except to…
The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
/ At any hour within thy travels lone
/ A human shape but mine. Thou com’st…
Cauld, cauld is Alnack …
/ Cauld is the snaw wind and sweet.
/ The maukin o’ Creagan Alnack
/ Has snaw for meat.
/
/ Nae fit gangs…
Clock-leddy, clock-leddy
/ Flee awa’ hame,
/ Your lum’s in a lowe,
/ Your bairns in…
Today,
/ on our journey home,
/ we saw
/
/ a buzzard
/ making a kill
/ on the roadside verge.
/
/ It glided across
/ our windscreen
/ and hunkered down
/
/ on something –
/ we couldn’t see
/ what…
Is there a wolf,
/ A wolf in the park,
/ A wolf who wakes when the night gets dark?
/ Is there a wolf in…
Muile nam monaidheam farsaing
/ agus nam bailtean gun daoine;
/ an clamhan air chaithris ‘na rìoghachd
/ ag èisdeachd ri beul-aithris na gaoithe.
for the new Scottish Parliament
/
/ The icy rain is spitting
/ on the pines and golden birches.
/ Hangings of black cloud
/ are torn apart by…
Out of the haar, in flight,
/ in formation, in position, each eye
/ on the white rump in front, each aware
/ of the white…
There are times when I think
of the knowledge we had as children…
I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion
Has broken Nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion
Which makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion
An’ fellow-mortal!
/ At the raw end of winter
/ the mountain is half snow, half
/ dun grass. Only when snow
/ moves does it become a hare.
/
/ If…