Kintyre
In Kintyre, geology
looks civilised.
Tablecloth corners
drape its flat, ridged hills.
Walls of water shatter
as the tide presses.
Car air vents usher in
the tang of the sea.
Swallows are the commonest bird,
fast jets over low land,
flicking and yawing
all along this green road.
Carol McKay’s short fiction and poetry have been published widely over the last two decades in anthologies and magazines. She co-wrote Eileen Munro’s bestselling Scottish memoir As I Lay Me Down To Sleep, published by Mainstream in 2008, and was interviewed on BBC World Service about her ground-breaking ebook Second Chances: True Stories of Living With Addison’s Disease in 2013.
I am really missing Kintyre just now; I visit Carradale regularly.