Miles inland
Cornish grain still tastes of salt
From sea-spray tang's
South-Westerly assault
Whipped by winds
From off the froth of foam
Where mist begins
And seeds of storms are sewn.
Neil Rhind has been doctored by Edinburgh University for work on the Scottish polymath Alasdair Gray. A contributor to Poetry Scotland, Apricity, Eemis Stane, Red Ogre Review, Punt Volat, and others, his work has appeared in thematic anthologies on scientists, Satanists and cephalopods, and many ritually significant community dramas in Edinburgh.