ROBIN ROBERTSON

Scotland has given us gift
in you, Robin Robertson
to make everyone homesick
for an ex camera moment
your lines are visibly quick
and transparent
to my resonant ear
and red eye
with fairly generous rhythm
I'm reading you
while playing solo jazz riffs
outside my family home
as a songbird lifts herself
on a fir branch
up to the blue hills
your words are intimate
here under the sky sun
in a horizon so ubiquitous.