A Wee Guest Poem: Marion McCready

The Rest and Be Thankful

On The Rest we lie

back on tarmac eyeing up

the winter sky: Pleiades, Plough, Orion.

Drive. The Milky Way suspends

above the hollow glen, high

high up the Drover’s Road. Bend

into its curves, take no thought for the morrow

just drive. The highway kneels before us,

the windscreen is riddled with galaxies

strewn across the rotunda night.

Tonight there is no loch, no Firth of Clyde

smack into a beach wall, just a pumpkin moon

and the Glasgow road carved from a mountainside.

(First published in Poetry Scotland and The Glasgow Herald)

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Marion McCready lives in Dunoon, Argyll. Her poems have appeared in a variety of publications including The Edinburgh Review, Northwords Now and The Glasgow Herald. Calder Wood Press published her pamphlet collection Vintage Sea earlier this year. Marion blogs about poetry here - http://sorlily.blogspot.com/