You’d know her house by the drawn blinds –
by the cormorants pitched on the boundary wall,
the black crosses of their wings hung out to dry…
—Robin Robertson, “At Roane Head”
in the London Review of Books, 14 August 2008
Today, 22 March, is International Seal Day 🦭
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v30/n16/robin-robertson/at-roane-head
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #folklore #seal #seals #selkie #InternationalSealDay
