The Oken Stone Podcast
Poems, stories and thoughts from Galloway, Scotland.
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Geology
Walking, I passed between stones
unnoticed leaving left and right
divided by geography.
An accident of place or time?
It wasn't clear but crystalline.
My hemispheres are cut through.
Thought is hard and ordered,
slow; blood seems
an unnecessary fluid,
heart beats a series
of shocks across
tectonic continents of skin.
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Albatrossicals
A peedie poem about a muckle bird.
Albatrossicals
By full moon on the first of November
a great bird preened its wings
hunting far out on the oceans
by night and by day wandering.
She cries salted tears for her lover
lost in equatorial zones
across the Northernmost waters
and so far, so very far from home.
An aviated quest for redemption
a search beyond limits of sail
sleeping through tempest or peril
fallen down on the back of a whale.
Albatross crosses the wave tops
each wing is a hundred feet long
soaring and wheeling and diving
her heart is not where it belongs.
Albatross glides the Atlantic
a creature of infinite grace
displaced queen of the Gulf Stream
Pacific, alone and misplaced.
The truth is there for the telling:
reconciliation,
a soul all alone on the North Sea
fly south to your love and be one.
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