Fishermen in Winter
George Mackay Brown
Such sudden storm and drifts
We could see nothing, the boat
Fluttering in a net
Of reefs and crags.
The islands, blind whales
Blundered about us. We heard
The surge and plunge
And the keening, all around.
Farm women had set stone lamps
In the ledges that night.
The village lamplighter,
He had not thrown
Over the village his glimmering net.
The skipper glimpsed one star
โ Soon quenched โ
But it beckoned to
A poor island with one croft.
We moored Fulmar. We took
Up to the croft door
Two fish from the basket.
Such sudden storm and drifts
We could see nothing, the boat
Fluttering in a net
Of reefs and cragsโฆ
โGeorge Mackay Brown, โFishermen in Winterโ
published in CARVE THE RUNES: Selected Poems (Polygon 2021)
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