Hazel Buchan Cameron has published five pamphlet collections, including The Currying Shop, which was joint winner of the Callum Macdonald Memorial Award,2008, and most recently, Finding IKEA (Red Squirrel Press 2010) .
My mother was a catwalk model before she married.
Afterwards she kept her elegant ways;
wore stiletto shoes with ease.
The gold and silver, six inch heels
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My father – ‘Big Duff’, strode ahead with hounds in line.
I scrambled on, always several steps behind.
He covered the ground at pace, narrow roads, stiles
and country miles of grassy fields; pausing only
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From virginity to fertility - it goes.
From blood to lust, innocence to trust,
we lose them all – they go.
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Fear of hunger?
Not at all.
I will not prostitute my soul
for a piece of bread
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They say they’re big fish
when all I see are smallfry
They say they’re a good catch
when I would throw them back
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