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StAnza 2027 · 12-14 March · St Andrews

Poetry Map of Scotland · poem no. 66

Haiku sequence

mountainsides green-gold
in unseasonable sun
above, Beinn Dorain

‘Scotland’s Mount Fuji’
immense, conical, perfect
scarred with sky-blue scree

nearer, Beinn Odhar
spreads its wings protectively
a guardian eagle

Mandy Macdonald

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