Scott Elder

ROSIE

…here a park     here a pigeon
there a crow     a trace of gold

     we can’t go on like this
here a sparrow    a broken flask

     look Rosie    I’m becoming frail
everything makes me 

a box of chocolates
     laugh or cry    my skin

a seasoned barrel of ice
of rice     of herring

     has a heart of its own
     we could together be

a fist     a twist of light
     …yes, Rosie     something like this

Scott Elder’s work has been widely published in the UK, Ireland, and abroad.  Since 2016 his poetry has been placed or commended in numerous competitions. ‘Breaking Away’, a debut pamphlet was published by Poetry Salzburg (2015) and his collection Part of the Dark by Dempsey&Windle (2017). A second collection My Hotel, will be published by Salmon Poetry in 2023.