52/100 The forge flames

The forge flames, the hammerings, glowings,

End one way -

A cold nail on an anvil.

[from ‘Hill Runes’, George Mackay Brown, 'Selected Poems 1954-1992']

48/100 after that Godsent storm

I tell you this, my son:  after

That Godsent storm, I find peace here

These many years with

The grey monks of Eynhallow.

[from ‘The Storm’, George Mackay Brown, '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’]