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Category Archives: Scotland 2024
Fraiku: Fossil
Bury me in soggy ground heart decomposing a song as bones become stone (My own photo from The Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow)
Fraiku: Sleeping In
After a long travel day and a dark night of rain in my own bed (Back home, safe and sound, after my trip to Scotland.)
Sonnet for Me and my Dinner
I’ve been underwater for almost a month beneath a gray sky no sun — no moon not even a hope of stars Like a cod swimming in the North Sea through cool familiar waters then plucked from home thrown into … Continue reading
How to Build a Stone Circle
Plant pebbles in a circle aligned with the tilt of the planet and the stars of the ecliptic watch them grow into stones after centuries — rocks after millennia — megaliths Sing to them the same song your grandmother sang … Continue reading
Fraiku: Brodgar
A new stone watches The old stones have lichen beards After thunder — sun While the photo of the Ring of Brodgar is mine, the lines are not. I just stole three lines from George Mackay Brown‘s 1992 collection, Brodgar … Continue reading
The Grave of George Mackay Brown
The weather in the Orkney Islands has been lovely, mostly low clouds, sporadic rain every day and a wind to chill a selkie’s bahookie. But it’s not all good, every evening the sun barges through the clouds and barely sets, … Continue reading
An American Eats Sushi in Edinburgh
I once counted States visited on family vacation roadtrips proud when we’d entered every one east of the Mississippi even if only to see the back of the Welcome To sign Now I collect stamps in my passport bleary-eyed banter … Continue reading
Grain Earth House
Grain Earth House I had to break my pen to unlock a hole in the ground older than Lazarus. Crouched, fingers grazing wet stone as I made my way to panic. Quick withdrawal — back to where I could stand … Continue reading
Fraiku: Daredevil
Cold mercury ramp trimmed with whitecaps ferry jumps waves Heavy seas crossing the Pentland Firth tonight but I kept my nerve and my stomach.
Scott Monument
Edinburgh loves its writers. I’d say almost as much as Dublin where there were statues to Joyce or Yeats practically every block but here it’s Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. The Monument to Scott towers above the city, over … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 