'poems for a map' in response to 'Our Living Rivers and Glens' media map.
work in progress
tribes.cookie.corrosive
nemeton-folded
rainwater
under
summit rock
pins coins charms
witching hour
" if he bee to dye, shall find a dead worme therein ; or a quick one, if health bee to follow."
offering
wind
steps away
***
maria’s happy
yellow hive
barn. refrained.wires.
buzzes
gathering
nectar
legal.etchings.buckling.
squirted.division.loud.
golds yellows oranges
charge the bees’ legs
gorse dandelions broom
reshaping.rested.flamingo.
***
chainsaw.televise.slurs.
imagine
sand
boulders
gravel
sticking
slipping
grinding
creaking
the granite
glen
raging
wetting
etching
carving
as time’s
echo
***
the old bellstone
ring
res
onates
asterisk.occur.finders.
summoning
glen gairn
last tree (ron brander)
Referendum
Day’s
paper wish
tied to dead rowan
ship.botanists.enter
swirling mist
by
Deveron water
dark goddess of Ireland
the last Cabrach tree
was fairies’ kindling
says Ron
bleached
wood-bones
jutt from peaty graves
in memoriam
***
In the beginning
was the rain
dugouts.homeward.annotated
water drops
on
water proof
lichen branch
reflects
deep
dog splash
swims ripples
