“High overhead
A little insect, constructed like a man,
Crawls on a foot-wide thread on a web that catches
Only a space with a cloud in it. A crane”
Norman MacCaig (1962)
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
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✒ #NormanMacCaig, Scottish poet, was #BOTD 14 November 1910. #Poetry #Literature
"Small Boy" Norman MacCaig
Herbin Ambre de Birmanie
Crown Mill
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I can feel myself now, trying to throw stones, but they cling to my hands and find their way into my pockets until all I want to do is walk into the surf.
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He picked up a pebble and threw it into the sea. And another, and another. He couldn’t stop. He wasn’t trying to fill the sea. He wasn’t trying to empty the beach. He was just throwing away, nothing else but. Like a kitten playing he was practising for the future when there’ll be so many things he’ll want to throw away if only his fingers will unclench and let them go.
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Small Boy
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"I'm very gregarious, but I love being in the hills on my own."
Poems: scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poet/norman-ma…]
✒ #NormanMacCaig, Scottish poet, was #BOTD 14 November 1910. #Poetry #Literature
On that stormy night
a top branch broke off
on the biggest tree in my garden.
It's still up there. Though its leaves
are withered black among the green
the living branches
won't let it fall.
#NormanMacCaig (1969) #poetry #poem
