Monday Poem (and pictures)

Posting this now as early up tomorrow and a too big work day. The Christmas Fair this afternoon was great, particularly the Lady GaGa-on-stilts Christmas Fairy. Although thinking about it, Lady GaGa has probably appeared on stilts herself.

Busy working on a massive triptych of a poem "Meditations on Pain" (working title), inspired by the Penpont bestseller, 'Transcriptions from Old Dalgarnock Graveyard' . So in the meantime, here's a lot of pictures and not much poem.

A Clear Day

I walked awhile with death.

Today, glass shards glint

from the mud puddles;

wheel ruts, Lilliputian Andes.

The shadows are sharp and long

and brilliant white

and delight in frost.

There is a saltire sky

over the sandstone kirk:

I should like

one more day
such as this.