The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray anthology accumulating its various feelings

accumulating its various feelings

and in a world the more loved for the sharpness of loss

trees drag their shadows in drunk stupors

Together they offer a fresh

but are all unknown to each other

The Gaelic Garden of the Dead by MacGillivray anthology accumulating its various feelingsThe Gaelic Garden of the Dead is three Books of the Dead bound as one. This trilogy comprises an alphabet of trees spoken as witness to a Highland hanging, ten pattern poetry dream diagrams and thirty five death sonnets deconstructed to Mary Queen of Scots. Saturated with the languages of arboreal myth, magic and folklore in Gaelic culture, the first book, The Gaelic Garden of the Dead is a forest quartet whose letters enunciate in the imagery of