Kathleen Jamie, “The Blue Boat”
How late the daylight edges
toward the northern night
as though journeying
in a blue boat, gilded in mussel shellwith, slung from its mast, a lantern
like our old idea of the soul
From Waterlight: Selected Poems. You can hear Jamie read from several of her poems at The Poetry Archive. The first third of Waterlight contains poems from The Tree House, a collection which won the 2004 Guardian Forward Prize for Poetry.
9 July 2007 | poetry |
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