Five Brief Stanzas from a Scottish-born Poet

September 26, 2023 by Jan Herman

by MALCOLM RITCHIE

i saw it: the end
of everything
at the bottom of
a teacup

*

as a gull passes over –
glimpse of the sun’s last ray
precariously secreted  
beneath a wing

*

as a brief visitor to my ear
a fly droned on about 
some matter or other that
was too brief for me to catch

*

her words like
a mirror in her mouth:
i saw myself instantly

*

arching parabolic trace
of the rainbow’s invisible arrow
released from colour
into the colourblind eye 
of gravity

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Christopher Crosman says

September 30, 2023 at 9:12 am

Another Scott’s poem (from A Ring of Bright Water by Gavin Maxwell):

At the ring’s centre,
Spirit, or angel troubling the pool,
Causality not in nature,
Finger’s touch that summons at a point, a moment
Stars and planets, life and light
Or gathers cloud about an apex of cold,
Transcendent touch of love summons my world into being
Jan Herman says

September 30, 2023 at 10:06 am

It’s a gift! Thanks for that.