Document 1399
Facing Foula
Author(s): James Hiddo Moncrieff
Copyright holder(s): James Hiddo Moncrieff
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The small birds blew past
Like leaves in autumn
And greylags fought a wavering flight path
From the sea
The sky dragged
its moorings south in a grey shroud.
The black tarpaulin of night
Threw itself across the window frame
And snow came
Uninvited
Spitting white fury
At the glass.
Morning saw the daffodils
Rise from their knees
And the sun enter at the back door
As low cloud moved north
Against a broken blue sky
And sea, the colour of liver, break
In a white line off Loose Head.
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