Poem
David Kinloch
FOTHERINGAY, 1587
FOTHERINGAY, 1587
FOTHERINGAY, 1587
If I could cast outthe net of lacis
from the tower window
gather up the frilled pinks
and columbines swimming
upstream
to the juniper . . .
“It is all distant enough
to look embroidered.”
Pearl of water. Not
pearl, no
but how the hinge of oiled pebbles
opens
the river’s silver inlay to itself.
Look! There is the silly rabbit of life
hopping hopping
My voice is the unicorn
in a mirror: inaudible
castrato.
It is the damp
suggests our subjects:
sneiles
a sea moonke
a she Dolphin fische.
(Trust not overmuch
in appearance.)
The seven planets
in petit point
enriched with gold and silver.
The North Star
not completed.
© 2006, David Kinloch
David Kinloch
(United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 1959)
David Kinloch was born in Glasgow in 1959 and educated at Glasgow and Oxford Universities. For many years a teacher of French language and literature, he now teaches creative writing and Scottish literature in the English Studies Department of the University of Strathclyde. His publications include four books of poetry, Dustie-Fute (Vennel Press, 1992), Paris-Forfar (Polygon, 1994), Un Tour d\'...
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FOTHERINGAY, 1587
If I could cast outthe net of lacis
from the tower window
gather up the frilled pinks
and columbines swimming
upstream
to the juniper . . .
“It is all distant enough
to look embroidered.”
Pearl of water. Not
pearl, no
but how the hinge of oiled pebbles
opens
the river’s silver inlay to itself.
Look! There is the silly rabbit of life
hopping hopping
My voice is the unicorn
in a mirror: inaudible
castrato.
It is the damp
suggests our subjects:
sneiles
a sea moonke
a she Dolphin fische.
(Trust not overmuch
in appearance.)
The seven planets
in petit point
enriched with gold and silver.
The North Star
not completed.
FOTHERINGAY, 1587
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