October Prayer
nae dear god, nae amen
jist a laggie skein beatin
a braid path i the clood-spreckelt lift;
birk leaves i the rakin wind
like a shook tambourine
Chris Powici lives in Perthshire. For many years he taught creative writing for the University of Stirling and the Open University, but now concentrates on writing poems and essays, mainly about how the human and natural worlds overlap. His latest poetry collection is Look, Breathe (Red Squirrel Press). Chris is co-editor of New Writing Scotland and one of the writers behind the climate change campaign group and e-zine ‘Paperboats’: https://paperboats.org/writings
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