Kettletoft to Quoyness

Kettletoft to Quoyness

Sunday – the empty square the locked bar three fishing boats tethered at the pier a portacabin bank open once a week an empty road between level barley-fields fulmar on its nest in the ruins of a church a meadow of yellow iris where sheep and gravestones sleep shimmer...
Chambered Cairn, Quoyness

Chambered Cairn, Quoyness

the passage is three feet high on your knees in the seething dark you enter in the corbelled chamber’s space you uncoil and stand earthfast at the centre silence hisses in your ears on an inch of paper you write the three runes of your name, bind it with hair and hide...
The Charterhouse Mines

The Charterhouse Mines

THE  CHARTERHOUSE MINES.     Blood washed and slate, the sky presided over one hour’s walk to mark the mines. the mist formed veils in fading light as shadows slid from shafts and a banshee of an owl claimed the night.   long headed shepherds, moor and...