Roofless Scot’s Church
sky monument to Celts and time
trawlers bob in the harbour
paravanes at attention
from where the rood stood
Danube, Achernar, Sirius
wheel overhead

Buried in wind-weaved grass
a grave, 1209 AD

A fisherman tires at the tiller
sails off the coil
or a goat wife about the crags
who in spring, a sneeze blew away

Distance is time for the traveller
a series of digressions of nows
living in eternity.