SIXTEEN OCCASIONAL POEMS
19902000
13 – BOSNIAN HEADS
Poem: Alasdair Gray © 2005
Gouged white into black old wood:
1 woman aghast, wired in,
1 woman mourns, barred out.
Three men in crooked crowns:
1 grief distorted, 1 grief bemused,
1 enraged with his broken sword.