Modern Scottish Women Poets by Dorothy McMillan

Author:Dorothy McMillan [Dorothy McMillan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781847675071
Publisher: Canongate Books
Published: 2003-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

When she went,

she went like the old bunch, cursing,

blue as smoke,

you could almost smell the burning

(Oh, they were a wild lot, the Johnstones,

border raiders,

horse stealers setting the Kirk alight

and all their enemies inside)

With her heart tattered

as a tyre on the road

she begged for morphine

and to be done with it,

to be gone among the gliding dead

She glints now in the gooseberry bushes,

her broom hisses out at low-dashing cats

In the night she slaps up her window

and hurls hairbrushes

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