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.

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

Like Him, Like my Dead Shepherd

Michael Dennis Browne

This summer I grow
heavy like him,
my bones thicken,

my mass increases.
Wading out of the lake
I shake myself,

shake shake shake
till the white hairs fly.
Home again, I settle

down on the floor
in the corner
with a groan.

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