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Three Foxes by the Edge of the Field at Twilight - by Jane Hirshfield

{ Poem }

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 Adder of Quinag - by Olive Fraser

{ Poem }

The grey roots circle thee, who never knew
/ At any hour within thy travels lone
/ A human shape but mine. Thou com’st…

Benighted in the Foothills of the Cairngorms: January - by Olive Fraser

{ Poem }

Cauld, cauld is Alnack …
/ Cauld is the snaw wind and sweet.
/ The maukin o’ Creagan Alnack
/ Has snaw for meat.
/
/ Nae fit gangs…

Beasties - by Helen Cruickshank

{ Poem }

Clock-leddy, clock-leddy
/ Flee awa’ hame,
/ Your lum’s in a lowe,
/ Your bairns in…

Wild - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

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…

A wolf in the park - by Richard Edwards

{ Poem }

Is there a wolf,
/ A wolf in the park,
/ A wolf who wakes when the night gets dark?
/ Is there a wolf in…

An Clamhan - by Maoilios Caimbeul
Myles Campbell

{ Poem }

Muile nam monaidheam farsaing
/ agus nam bailtean gun daoine;
/ an clamhan air chaithris ‘na rìoghachd
/ ag èisdeachd ri beul-aithris na gaoithe.

Wolves - by Douglas Lipton

{ Poem }

for the new Scottish Parliament
/
/ The icy rain is spitting
/ on the pines and golden birches.
/ Hangings of black cloud
/ are torn apart by…

Canada Geese - by Robert Davidson

{ Poem }

Out of the haar, in flight,
/ in formation, in position, each eye
/ on the white rump in front, each aware
/ of the white…

Being and Time - by John Burnside

{ Poem }

There are times when I think
of the knowledge we had as children…

To a Mouse - by Robert Burns

{ Poem }

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!

A Calendar of Hares - by Anna Crowe

{ Poem }

/ At the raw end of winter
/ the mountain is half snow, half
/ dun grass. Only when snow
/ moves does it become a hare.
/
/ If…

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