Skye Loneragan is the 2016 Writer in Residence for Spring Fling and Wigtown Book Festival.
This two part residency involves Skye visiting studios throughout SF 2016 (28-30 May 2016), sharing poetry across distances with those on the Spring Fling studio tour & performing to those on the shuttle buses. Over the next couple of weeks we will be publishing some of Skye’s poems here on the blog on the lead up to WBF 2016. Skye will be performing her poetry at Wigtown Book Festival (23 Sept – 2 Oct 2016).
‘Comity’ by Skye Loneragan
You can’t catch
without fishing –
got to let it dangle, bait the lull
a little, wait
with a line
These lines are string
noodles of whisper-white yarn
taughtly held, intoning silence
with promised weave
like the still piano keys
beside the loom
Put the nettle on
Watch the leaves
Slowly lose themselves
Spinning in verdure
ready the wool
dip it in to a guess
drip-dry any answer
in occasional sun, walk away –
still fishing –
don’t speak to anyone
