The Dark Stuff by Donald S. Murray

Author:Donald S. Murray
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

PART THREE

Fàd a’ Ghàrraidh – The Wall Peat

CUTTING PEATS

When he went to moor to cut peat,

he’d turn over quarrels with his brother.

A feud about a forgotten football match.

Squabbles over crofting borders.

And not far from the surface,

just below a crust of turf

he scraped off with an edge of spade –

a dispute over mother’s love.

And he’d dig even deeper,

slice through root and branch of heather,

recalling bruised skin and emotions,

insults they spat at one another,

till preserved there within the peat,

like the dead trunk of a rotten tree,

he’d find the source and root of it;

a deep, primeval memory

that would keep him warm in winter

for trapped within the layers of peat

was the moment that still blazed for him,

restoring all his ancient hate and heat.

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