Portree is busy today.
Fishermen with pipes and
Stories to share.
The womenfolk in
Working aprons and no little
Confusion. Where is Jamie?
They ask.
And right on cue
A white van meanders
Down quayside.
It’s Jamie alright.
It’s Jamie, retired Edinburgh
Schoolteacher, widowed Jamie.
Happy in his new life as
The man with the van
On the Isle of Sky
from https://www.isleofskye.com/portree
Jacob
His old eyes scan the distance
His backside to the glen
The others know
Then.
The pigs grunt and shunt from
Sty to feedbox then trudge
Indoors. While hens and geese
Fall silent and disappear.
And green turns grey then near
Near black. And
In five minutes everywhere
Is white.
And when every living creature has
Taken shelter,
Jacob turns, he blinks and he
Plods to his own warm place.
Retwords 