‘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']
That's definitely underwater. Like some kind of creature, turtle, water snake. Not that there's many of them around Orkney!
ReplyDeleteAh ... I never saw it like that at all. Fascinating.
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