Golfdrum Find

John Mingay
ISSUE 2006-1
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Golfdrum Find There’s the turning to dust for affinity’s sake, the exposure to an air unbreathed and unbreathable - the clamour of the future come to visit. There’s something about this to evoke a vague parallel - whether out of the darkness and into light or the crumbling away of what once was flesh when outside finally intrudes - in these I can find myself, but know, even now, that all is never over. There are always to be sudden falls of earth. Based on a 1771 story in The Annals of Dunfermline, quoted in A History of the Old Fitpaths of Dunfermline by Sheila Pitcairn.