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Sunday, 19 August 2012

46/100 They looked at nothing



They stood there, in a small flock
At the wooden jetty in Hamnavoe
Till the gang-plank was let down, […]
Most of the women were below
They didn’t speak.  They looked at nothing.

[from ‘Emigrants 1886’, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]

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