Here are the ducks beaking for a mate,
ink leaks from a pen, a robin settles
in the birch’s oxter, the loch’s there
long and letting something to sea.
Here is a roof made of turf, a ring
of pines around the mountain’s base.
Here is a nuclear submarine painted black
being escorted into the estuary.
Here I am in the estuary writing something,
here I am writing something, in the estuary of
writing something. Here I am by this sea
loch clocking in with the undertow.
Stevie Ronnie is an award-winning writer, artist and creative researcher based in the UK.
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