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Canto 1<br />

The Poet’s journey to India<br />

from Scotland to Calicut<br />

New Beginnings<br />

I had assumed my quillerie was done<br />

Until my soul exhumed the triptych train<br />

& in a half‐light Nostradamian<br />

Projects through time, I shall to thee again,<br />

Muse of my life<br />

When wedded with all this<br />

Thou art the waspen knife embedded in my bliss.<br />

I took a walk round Whittinghame<br />

Such an early summer’s day<br />

When bees about wild garlic hum<br />

& gorse golden in god’s sway<br />

Hearing a faerie kettledrum<br />

Beat yonder house crow‐grey<br />

Where Balfour read Plato, his Holy Land,<br />

Rises to rouse & rile Islam’s command.<br />

I clambour’s through thick thornbush throng<br />

Veins piereced by splinter‐pin<br />

Not sucking tongue nor needle long<br />

Could pluck it from within<br />

Destined to bubble septic, a new Israel neath my skin.<br />

Poetry wants something enormous, barbarous, savage<br />

Denis Diderot<br />

East Lothian<br />

May<br />

2008

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