hokku

Flat boat in a kelp-
plugged calm. Only
the sky leaks.


 Arasaig

Tony Baker

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in exchange for olives, almonds, and peaches
Sonia chose this northern view
of Lomond from her orchard 

Falkland

Alec Finlay  

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 a finger-width from Muck
Horse Island
I want to go there

Muck

Linda France

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approaching The Bridge
my fingers can’t help
feeling for change

Forth Road Bridge

Alec Finlay

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on an island, off an island,
off an island, off the home islands,
the westmost point

North Uist

Colin Will

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2 crows
tow a line
over Crawsfield

Bonnington House

Alec Finlay

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Dunbar’s rose
petals scented
with sea

Dunbar

Alec Finlay

* * *

Hoy's twin hills
the heart's atriums - 
ventricles deep in the sea

Hoy
 
Alison Flett


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steely blue sea 
and hazy sky
merge into Jura's Paps
 
Jura
 
Linda France

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Loch Hàsco 's a' Chailleach

os cionn sleamhnachadh a' bhasalt

mar a ghluaiseas na Maighdeannan gu cladach

Loch Hasco and the Old Woman

above the slippage of basalt

as the Maidens ease to the shore

Quiraing, Trotternish, Skye

Maoilios Caimbeul / Myles Campbell

  
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dips and turns
beside the dark waters
of Loch Lubnaig
 
Loch Lubnaig

Colin Will

* * *
  
skiing at Hillend
CANCELLED
due to snow   

Hillend

Alec Finlay

* * *

even on Colonsay
when you hear a curlew
you long for Colonsay

Colonsay

Thomas A Clark, (after Basho)

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Ardnamurchan - 
Sanna's bright beach
seen from the sea

Ardnamurchan

Colin Will

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Ben Ledi and our new
mark the blades
of The Braes o Doune

Dunblane

Alec Finlay

* * *

passing Doune Castle
we chop off
our arms and legs

Doune, (Monty Python and the Holy Grail)

Alec Finlay

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  at Cove the raindrops
hang like uneven teeth
along the wire

Cove, Kilcreggan

Davy Polmadie

* * *
  
 Skye Cuillin - 
a machine
to capture clouds

Skye

Colin Will

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a green keepsake
of ivy on the face
of Dunollie Castle

Dunollie

Alec Finlay

* * *

Rhum, Eigg, Canna –
islands takes up so much
of this inland sea

Inner Hebrides

Alec Finlay

* * *

2,900 million years of
banded gneiss
in Rebecca’s palm

North Uist

Alec Finlay

* * *

from Ceardach Ruadh and Cnoc Burgh
Hiort and Boraraigh are grey
hoops against a dun ocean

St Kilda

Alec Finlay

* * *

westerly-whipped
hair’ll blow me
off the island
 
North Uist

Rebecca Hall

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