our old idea of the soul

Here's the fifth of the series of eight cards that the Scottish Poetry Library has produced for National Poetry Day (the theme this year is light) ...

... it's by Kathleen Jamie - and can also be read in full here:


The Blue Boat

How late the daylight edges
toward the northern night
as though journeying
in a blue boat, gilded in mussel shell

with, slung from its mast, a lantern
like our old idea of the soul

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Kathleen Jamie (1962 - )

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