56/100 Master of the granite hewing

This mason, master of the granite hewing,

squaring, last pure chiselling, cold star glitters,

‘There must be a cool place, infirmaria,’

[‘Architect’, from the Foresterhill sequence, George Mackay Brown, from 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

47.100 'Of dancing numbers and notes'

Orpheus in his cottage

Near the crag edge

Ponders

The mystery of being and time;  all

His years a net

Of dancing numbers and notes.

[from Peter Maxwell Davies:  60,  8 September 1994, George Mackay Brown, ‘Travellers’]