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Monday 13 August 2012

40/100 ‘She goes like the burdened bee’ …


‘She goes like the burdened bee’ …
‘The slut, the shame’ 
[ … ] The ninth round knits with the
wheel of the sun, as burn is meshed into ocean’ …

[‘Gossip about a Girl’ from Seal Island Anthology 1875, George Mackay Brown,
 from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

2 comments:

  1. That's definitely underwater. Like some kind of creature, turtle, water snake. Not that there's many of them around Orkney!

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    1. Ah ... I never saw it like that at all. Fascinating.

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