Dead Good Poets

Brian McCabe

Brian McCabe

Spring Witch

The Blind

This is Thursday

Making Senses

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.

Supported by Aberdeen City Council

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

North East Writers

Making Senses

Brian McCabe

A cloud has given up trying to be
an early nineteenth-century shipwreck.
Below it, smoke from a bonfire of leaves
is queuing up into a question mark:

What, no wind? And it seems to question me:
with these pieces of a black, white and pink
jigsaw, what other picture can you see
but cows? Does the evening stoop to drink

its own shadow, or the beauty queen of trees
tremble, get ready to drop the pretence
of that multicoloured hair-do of leaves?
I am a man and I make my man-sense

of a cloud, the smoke, some cows and a tree.
But no landscape can make sense of my me.

From One Atom to Another (Polygon, 1987)

 

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