I mean to travel north

Kathleen Jamie was announced as Scotland's new Makar yesterday ...

... so, I thought it only appropriate to blip some of her poetry today -  this is taken from her pictured 2018 'selected poems' volume, and does speak to the circumstances of our time:


Lochan

When all this is over I mean
to travel north, by the high

drove roads and cart tracks
probably in June,

with the gentle dog-roses
flourishing beside me. I mean

to find among the thousands
scattered in that land

a certain quiet lochan,
where water lilies rise

like small fat moons,
and tied among the reeds,

underneath a rowan,
a white boat waits.

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Kathleen Jamie (1962 - )

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