Who are you?
When I get home, I don't know what to talk to you about.
Who are you?
Confirmation
..and I just asked about the scones,
you know,
and I just wanted confirmation
you know?
Outside
Ich werde mich nach Draußen sitzen
- I'm going to sit outside
A most profound conclusion
So full of meaning and weight
when said in German by a man,
with a voice like stone, gravel and sand
as if to say,
there is nothing temperate about this place
humidity wraps around his words
the air, though heavy, is put in its place
cloying and sweet, his voice dry and deep
There is no equilibrium between the man and this place
yet he is so mild and agreeable
as he leaves his wife in the temperate house
Photos in the Temperate Lands greenhouse which is free to enter at the Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh.
Poems based on conversations overhead in the Botanical Gardens and during the Edinburgh Festival.
