Dead Good Poets

Ian Crockatt

Ian Crockatt

The Unforgiven

Judas

Orders

Apostles

Dead Good Poets

The Dead Good Poets online anthology of poetry by writers from and associated with Aberdeen was published in 2006/2007 with funding from Aberdeen City Council.

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For more information about the literary scene in Aberdeen and North-East Scotland please see North East Writers.

North East Writers

Apostles

Ian Crockatt

Scared footsteps in the dark. How like immigrants
we are, shrinking into our spines
when the town dogs bare their teeth. Then light
breaks through like a cop from the cold
and we hurry to shake his hand
but it turns to a claw — we see how his face
is beaked, steak-tongued, fume-breathed,
and his eyes mill suns like tunnels
in the vaults of a bullion-store —
golden, steel-walled, nerveless. High,
high in the cranium's sky a spotter-plane circles —
we crouch like recruits in its windowless corridor.
Will we jump? Pass out? Implode?
Scared footsteps in the dark. Every nerve roars.

 

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