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Sunday 26 August 2012

53/100 put honey in his mouth



I am not too ugly a girl
I long to put honey in his mouth,
I would draw a comb through the blown corn of his hair.

[from ‘2, The Girl, One Summer in Gairsay Isle’, George Mackay Brown Following a lark]

1 comment:

  1. nice composition, which is almost sticky with honeyness

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