Working study of Minotaur  for Nuclear Submarines collaboration

 

As part of my current studio work, I’m developing collaboration projects with several poets. One of these collaborations,

 which will be on show during my residency at the Scottish Poetry Library, is with Edinburgh poet Rob A. Mackenzie.

 

 Working study detail for Nuclear Submarines collaboration, from the poem by Rob A. Mackenzie

 

Nuclear Submarines

 

One day they will surely betray me.

For now, they seem content to drowse

 

resolutely without wit or purpose

like autistic sharks balooning

 

through seaweed, rock and sand

of fish cities deep in blackout.

 

While I’m trying to trust, one breaks

the Gareloch’s surface and fixes

 

its stunned gaze on the mirrored sky.

Things are as they should be -

 

the clouds, the flotsam, the stranger

peering from the shore with my face.

 

The second it drops, I no longer exist.

It has no memory, no plans.

 

The water rises, the sky falls,

and I am as blue is to the fish.\

 

 

Many thanks to Rob for permission to post his poem. Rob’s book ‘The Opposite of Cabbage’

is available from www.saltpublishing.com, or from any good bookseller.

 

Rob A, Mackenzie also writes for Magma Poetry Online

 

 

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