Sea Roads.

I wish to follow

The glittering water

Of the whale road,

The swan path above,

The breaking watery runes

Of the hump-backed waves

Around the cockleshell bows.

The million voices

Of the shadow road birds:

Gannets, puffins and razorbills

Singing of past voyages

And voyages yet to be.

I wish to follow

The uncharted sun road,

Plunge westward

Into the myriad

Stains of evening:

Tell the tale

To the blue men of Minch

Around an oak spitting fire

In the secret shadows

Of a sacred island bothy.