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.

When

Gerard Rochford

When you lie down for me,

on bed or on leaves,
your arms holding me in
and no words said,

then, the world is bound,

by the marks I trace
on your body
and by the sounds you make.

When you lie down for me.

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