My name is not ....... ©
Stella
Fife, Scotland
2004
I am a woman from Edinburgh
I have no plaid
I have no pibroch
My name is not Fiona
My home does not look
Like a shortbread tin
I do not keep cooked porridge
In a table drawer
I do not have the monarch
Of the glen
Above my fireplace
I have no chimney anyway
Had I been born earlier
I may have gutted fish
Picked blue flax
Up to my knees in water
I would not have worn tartan
I am a lowlander
No one in my family
can play the bagpipes.
I adore the landscape of Scotland
and weep for those who were
pushed from their own back door
by a circular letter
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