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.

Luminous Storms

Wendy Morton

I have lived in the house on the Strait for thirty years,
watched the west wind drive in winter.
I have eaten the luminous storms, the terrible rain.
That wind has driven the husbands I have forgotten
from the house; they couldn't hear its language.

How could they know what I hear:
the scavenging gulls,
their mad circling;
and the wren's small song
hidden in November woods.

I am already in flight
at the end of love —
and at its beginning.

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