The Well-Spring - by
Since the former priestess’s departure / a sea-change has taken place.
work
My Father, Dreaming - by
The train glides through a world of frozen white,
/ low mists swirl and smudge the mirror of the Clyde,
/ Helensburgh stretches…
Book Dusters - by
It’s like painting / the Forth Bridge / without the fresh air / and fear / of drowning.
Early Morning, West Hartlepool, 1963 - by
(from the photo with the same title by Don McCullin)
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/ A pipe fitter’s mate at the gates of dawn
/ Is wrenched from…
The Afternoon Shift Are Leaving the Port Talbot Steelworks - by
The machines don’t / stop, night or day, although, one by one, / the anonymous men are slipping away.
The Work - by
If I have to, then let me be the whaler poet, / launcher of the knife, portioning off / the…
Human Chain - by
for Terence Brown
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/ Seeing the bags of meal passed hand to hand
/ In close-up by the aid workers, and soldiers
/ Firing over the…
From the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - by
My only talent lay in these.
/ My father rubbed his hands together,
/ stared as though their whorls held codes
/ of thirty years obstetric…
from The Corsair - by
The power of Thought—the magic of the Mind! …
from Henry IV, Part One - by
If all the year were playing holidays, / To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Wit is it - by
The stonemason sade it’s aw in yur heed
/ Yur eyes ur like windeez an yur brain’s gon naywhere
/ Build yurself a palace
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/ The…
Be prepared - by
wear three T-shirts and one hooded top
/ layers are important
/ they can always come off
/ remember your oilskins
/ it’s always raining somewhere
/ wear a scarf
/ cold…