Sheena Blackhall Poems

A farmer bathes his cow in the lake
Like a servant, ministering to his mistress

The cow stands patiently
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When I walk on the sea, my stride is longer than Norway

Cruisers, tankers, frigates
Sail under my legs, tiny as tuna
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1.Tug of War
Dog, snapping at foam
Waves chasing its leaping paws
Sea’s wet tug of war
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1. Marilyn Munro's Fur

It swung from her back like a promise -
Presidents, gangsters, hunted it in packs;
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Love’s a bubble, a burp in the hookah-pipe of life
Ephemeral as cuckoo spit on a thistle.

Inside this nebulous sphere, would you Adam and Eve it,
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1. Winter Fox

Out of a siding, the studious urban fox
Trots off in the furious rain
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1.The Witch

Her knife, like a scarlet beak, clipped the apple's side
Her restless dragon bared its teeth at the pot
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His body looked at her,
My little dancing cousin
Taboo. Forbidden fruit
Unripe and lovely in her summer frock
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When Neolithic man with fur & stone
Roamed Scotland, one small seed begat a tree
At Fortingall, with wolf and wildness sown
It grew in stature, a yew stout and free
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A yacht slices the waves like a cheese-cutter
Off the jetty, youngsters plump
Like porpoise-pods in the Firth
Half-fish, these seamen’s sons in seal-wet trousers
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