Poetry through the post

A nice little boost from the creative universe for L. She got a contributor's copy of an anthology of Dundee poetry through the post this morning. Her poem was one she wrote back when she was a student at Dundee Uni and where it was published in the university's literary magazine Gallimaufry .

Only seems right to include the poem here...

A View of the Tay by Lorraine McCann

A line, edgy and flexible,
corrupted by wooden legs,
and stung by pin-pricks of dull orange
that bleed downwards and fade
to black.

The river smells chill, sounds wet.
This is where we dumped the body.
This is where it came back.

Putting your hand in this is like being alive
it's a nothingness so cold that it burns.
Drowning is beautiful - she didn't drown.
But those tangy pools of mirrored neon
are her eyes.


[Published in Whaleback City, edited by WN Herbert and Andy Jackson, Dundee University Press 2013.]