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Bute and Beyond

by Robin Munro

This way
the genes insist
this hefted Island way

a 'Brandane'
planted in that 'loveliest of Mays'
to navigate this crazy life

branded with the Brendan flaw: wanting
for all our wandering, Bute and beyond,
those journeys never made.

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