Dead Good Poets

Michael Dennis Browne

Like Him, Like my Dead Shepherd

Child's Elm Song

Mary, Seventeen

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.

At the Cabin

Michael Dennis Browne

3AM, I'm instant awake - Lord,
I've left the car in the ramp in town
with the children inside,
with the engine on as I ran...
No, that's not... left it
at a meter on Washington,
just under a NO PARKING sign,
the cops by now...

No... slow down... look, the children
are here, count them, they're fine,
look, the car's here, we made it,
we're four hours north of town,
and listen - a bird just began...
now it's stopped. Damn. I'll
have to jump up, go jam
more coins in that pine.

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