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Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay Poems
| 1. | Baggage | 5/27/2017 |
| 2. | Something Rhymed | 5/27/2017 |
| 3. | George Square | 5/27/2017 |
| 4. | Fiere | 5/27/2017 |
| 5. | Lucozade | 5/27/2017 |
| 6. | Gap Year | 5/27/2017 |
| 7. | Bed | 5/27/2017 |
| 8. | Keeping Orchids | 5/27/2017 |
| 9. | Between the Dee and the Don | 5/27/2017 |
| 10. | from Lochaline Stores | 5/27/2017 |
| 11. | Threshold | 5/27/2017 |
| 12. | Grandpa's Soup | 5/27/2017 |
| 13. | Castletown, Isle of Man | 5/27/2017 |
| 14. | Sound Of Sleat | 5/27/2017 |
| 15. | My Grandmother's Houses | 5/27/2017 |
| 16. | That Distance Apart | 5/27/2017 |
| 17. | Late Love | 3/16/2016 |
| 18. | No. 115 dreams | 5/27/2017 |
| 19. | Divorce | 5/27/2015 |
| 20. | The Mother Poem (Two) | 2/14/2015 |
| 21. | Baby Lazarus | 2/14/2015 |
Baby Lazarus
When I got home
I went out into the garden
Liking it when the frost bit
My old brown boots
And dug a hole the size of a baby
And buried the clothes
I'd bought anyway, just in case.
A week later I stood at my window
And saw the ground move
And swell the promise of a crop;
That's when she started crying.
I gave her a service then
Sang Ye Banks And Braes
Planted a bush of roses
Read from the Bible, the book of Job
Cursed myself digging a pit for my baby
Sprinkling ash from the grate.
Late that same night
She came in by the ...
The Mother Poem (Two)
I always wanted to give birth
Do that incredible natural thing
That women do-I nearly broke down
When I heard we couldn't
And then my man said to me
Well there's always adoption
(we didn't have test tubes and the rest
then) and well even in the early sixties there was something
Scandalous about adopting
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