Window
from kitchen window
the ocean is darkening
glimmer from Heisker
Poem: Chris Maclullich
Birth
from kitchen window
the ocean is darkening
glimmer from Heisker
Poem: Chris Maclullich
wind swirls past the house
air from the Caribbean
now lifts the peat smoke
Poem: Chris Maclullich
the ocean sighing
rattles through the bright pebbles
same noise for aeons
Poem: Chris Maclullich
Nurse Catriona MacAskill weighs in a baby, North Uist, Scotland 1959.
Catriona was originally part of the Highlands and Islands Medical Service (HIMS), a unique trial of medical care introduced 35 years before the creation of the NHS