Alexander Hutchison published Scales Dog (Salt: Cambridge) in 2007. This followed Carbon Atom (Link-light: Glasgow, 2006). "Epistle from Pevkos," included there, and dedicated to Gael Turnbull, has just been re-issued as a pamphlet. Born in Buckie, Hutchison lives in Glasgow and still does a bit of kick-about on Sundays.
Wine-Gum Green Cardigan, Tweedy Skirt
Just one of three women asleep
across from/adjacent to me on
a train that’s headed north.
This nearest a terrier with chin
tucked in above the checked
and neatly laundered shirt.
Awake, she snaps: the trolley
man already found that out before
she got her little boost of pinot noir
(with half-a-dozen softened dates).
Now, asleep, her pinched nose
her pearl-decked lobes, her silver
pepper and salted hair swept up
in a top-knot bun declare, if not
wealth, privilege, and temper
temporarily under wraps.
She’s been to Kew; she reads
the weekend Times. She knows
her mind. Can nip (I said before).
Watch out she doesn’t lock
her little teeth around your
finger tips or rip the flesh in
strips off anywhere else.
[Printed first in A Festschift for Duncan Glen at Seventy Five,
eds. Tom Hubbard and Philip Pacey, Craigarter Press, 2008]
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