GERRY LOOSE & MORVEN GREGOR: Creative Scotland Residency, 2014

Sweeney’s Tears: Morven Gregor (Laig Bay sea water rendered to salt on bothy stove). fragments* from Sweeney Albannach: Gerry Loose. Sgurr nan Gillean/ Ainshval/ Askival/ Hallival/ just a view/ hungry/ something remembered/ farmed out
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I only wanted to lose
my name
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loitering
outside the village
hall unbidden un
invited eaves
dropping gossip and come
hither talk
maybe someone will
drop a long dout
still lit
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where I live
you’ve not been

* from Sweeney Albannach, fragments 1 -105