The Guga Stone - Study for A St Kildan Woman Writes A Love Song To Her New Husband
A ST KILDAN WOMAN WRITES A LOVE SONG TO HER NEW HUSBAND
When I first heard you were to be mine
my heart trembled
like a wren within a wall,
hoping your fingers
would be soft as down
and not rough
as touch
of quills on wing-tips,
trusting, too, that as we bedded down
on Fulmar feathers,
you would not possess
the Gannet’s savage thrust
but instead the slow and easy rhythm
of a Cormorant
diving for bright and gleaming fish.
