Earth Day

Celebrating everything around us , this seemed particularly appropriate for Argyll on such a wonderful spring afternoon.  It is by the great Norman MacCaig and was written in February 1977.

Tighnuilt - the House of the Small Stream

for Charlie Ross

In a corner of Kirkaig
in a wild landscape, he created, 
a garden, a small Eden
of fruit trees, flowers and regimental
vegetables.  Such labour.  Such love

Its still there, though he is not
To remember him is to put that garden
in another place.  It shines
in the desolate landscape of loss -
a small Eden, of use and of beauty

I visit him there
between the mountains and the sea
We sit by a small stream
that will never run dry.