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POETRY IN THE PLAGUE YEAR
Poems written during the Coronavirus Outbreak 2020
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Sheila Lockhart Muir of Ord, Ross-shire, Scotland Sheila Lockhart is a retired social worker
and lives on the Black Isle in the Scottish Highlands with her
partner and two Icelandic horses, tending her garden and writing
poetry. She is a member of Ross-shire Writers and the Moniack Mhor
writers’ group and has had work published by Northwords Now,
Arachne Press, Nine Muses Poetry, Twelve Rivers
(Suffolk Poetry Society), the StAnza Poetry Map of Scotland,
The Writers’ Cafe and the Ekphrastic Review. Poem written on 11th May 2020 matsukaze the sheep have left dandelion galaxies swirl across green emptiness scuff of cropped grass yellow stars crushed underfoot gorse wildfires blaze along the fence lines with a scent of warmed coconut nearby the willow warbler practices his scales a half bale moulders in the rusty feeder blackened bones of a ram, ribcage, spine and rotted fleece laid out to await cremation the old pine leans into the wind it makes a sound the Japanese call matsukaze it sounds to me like sighing
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