In honour of MacDiarmid’s standing on a Raised Beach on Raasay. (1)
A beach is but a plateau on the edgeOf mountains in the sea, whose base extendsDown falling slowly through the upward forceOf water into deep chasms of time.A poet praised raised beaches because theyStood up to mark an earlier surfaceOf time’s causation of interactiveTardy play between dry solid ground and wetFluidity of chance and Change. … More In honour of MacDiarmid’s standing on a Raised Beach on Raasay. (1)











