GRAY VERSE

Posted on Tuesday 3 April 2007

Crossword Testament

Dirty stuff, dust, turmoil in lowland Scots
is stoor; stofzuiger Dutch for hoover. Love
desire lust are English, désir Francais,
lust Deutsch. Rare spirits, sprites, geists, ghosts inspire
esprit. Great Yeats creates, sweet Yeats repeats,
eager Edgar Poe try poetry games.
Dog shout, tree skin, water car meet in one
word, a curtailed world. See saw so we em
bark, go out into nothing like candle flames.

Alasdair Gray


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