six miles north of nowhere
in the middle of an old dirt road
I saw you pause just long enough
to steal that angel’s tears
the last I saw the sky was black
and you were headed south.

By Fr Gerard Garrigan.

a small lochan in Sutherland with forest edging onto it. A lone tree stand to the fore

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