Hit wis da swans, dat’s whit it wis.
Dat’s whit set da day apairt…

—Maxine Rose Munro, “A fine day”
published in NEW SHETLANDER #295, 2021
#poem #poetry

Listen to Maxine read her poem here, via @byleaveswelive.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/scottishpoet...

God, I love this fragment - how is her face evoked so beautifully and poignantly with so few lines.

4th century BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Info card below.

"Adverse circumstances let you know who someone is"

convenit adversisque in rebus noscere qui sit; #Lucretius

"It is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in the broken world" - Mary Oliver

this one often does the rounds and always makes me think of The Hobbit ❤️

Hi:) thought best start with something good, which is that about a month ago now I finished my Lucretius verse translation (called Particles, so needless to say not the entire poem!). I enjoyed this very much so I think I will do more :)