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Rare Day in Edinburgh by Martin Potter



Rare Day in Edinburgh

 

Late May sun in a long town

Teases out the orange in grey stone

Bringing tenement tall walls to render

Rock-slow a rosy smile

 

Evening of stiff breeze tardy spring

Lee in the hard dips between slopes

Urban birdsong’s greening pent-up frenzy

Dares narrow-road flights

 

Among awaking chimneys pots tiles

Down on pavement slabs burnish bask

A hill-scarp city inhales its warm draught

And beams a gorse-fringe tale







Martin Potter is a British-Colombian poet and academic, based in Edinburgh, and his poems have appeared in AcumenThe French Literary ReviewEborakonInk Sweat & TearsThe Poetry Village, andother journals as well as in anthologies by Black Bough and Gothic Keats Press. His pamphlet In the Particular was published in 2017. 

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