2 Poems
Heather Mackay Young
Heather Mackay Young lives and writes on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland, known in Gaelic as ‘Eilean Fraoch’ which translates as ‘The Heather Isle’. She is an apprentice to her homeland, a waymaker and pathfinder in a Celtic lineage of nature-based people who drew upon the wisdom of water, rock, plants and stories, to find meaning, beauty and wonder in the everyday. “Human Huntress” and “Tartle” are her very first published poems. “The Orchid” is forthcoming in Poet Lore.
Read more at heathermackayyoung.com and follow her on Instagram @heathermackayyoung
Human Huntress
At the estuary
mistaken as salmon
golden eagle’s talons
prepare to pierce pink-skin
a close encounter
close enough to see
the space between
fallen feathers
barren moor
stretched across her back
black-brown hues and
sharp streaked sunlight.
Tartle
White horses gallop
into the ghost-of-grey
divining the storm.
To gaze at the ocean
is to gaze at the nature of change.
Half of me is the sea.
My water, a story of
holding and letting go.
Blue is never just blue.
