Saint Columba’s Iona
Island off an island off an island
In the midst of a land-posted sea
In mists of winking clarity
Water the road for craft
Paths of the mind and rocks
Patent and lurking hazards
He landed in the thick of a throng
Waves mountain-peaks beaches
And otters seals in hourly
Metamorphosing visibility
Gleam of sand and the blueing
Cragged distances by ray-storm
A perfect spot for a monastery
Seed of entwinement for Picts
Bed of unfurling for Gaels
Martin Potter (https://martinpotterpoet.home.blog) is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Edinburgh, and his poems have appeared in Acumen, The French Literary Review, StepAway Magazine, Ink Sweat & Tears, The Poetry Village, and other journals as well as in anthologies by Black Bough, Green Ink Poetry and Gothic Keats Press. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017.
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