Salisbury Crags
Edinburgh Revisited
English - September 05, 2019 09:00 - 42 seconds - 600 KBBooks Arts Performing Arts edinburgh; fringe edinburgh castle edinburgh festival poetry ledingham edinburgh revisited Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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SALISBURY CRAGS
The terracotta curtain
Collects the evening sun
By hanging the cliff-face,
In the air,
Tipping back upon itself
Like a broken flagstone,
Cantilevered,
Against the
Momentary city,
Angling back,
Effortlessly,
Towards the sky,
Revealing the ground
Beneath our feet,
The hard rock,
Floating in space,
The Dolerite layers
The Basalt columns,
Aligned with
Slide-rule perfection
By nature's Eye,
A seamless
Counterweight, to
The random geometry
Of Edinburgh’s
Sloping silhouette.