Ash
Pirates
Robert Louis Stevenson
and S. R. Crocket, two of Scotland's
best novelists, would meet
and walk together by the old
Kirk of Glencourse. There
among the strange carvings
of skulls and crossbones they
would plot their novels of
pirates, treasure and border
reivers. Later in the
ashy embers of the fire they
would see the glint of Silver's
eye, the spark of flintlocks
and the strange grey man of
the borders. Read the
books, watch the fire, listen
for the jingle of bridle reins
in the dark and keep all your
doors locked. |
