Tag: Angus Ogilvy

  • MULTIPLE MORBIDITIES

    Multiple morbidities: the term they use to capture all the ways that nature fashions for us how to die: The cancer didn’t get him,                                                                                            but the diabetes did; that unpredicted stroke; the virus lying dormant; and infection in the throat; Or perhaps some unattributable malaise accumulated down the years – the persistent aching emptiness of…

  • Two Poems by Angus Ogilvy: from Lights in the Constellation of the Crab

      Cartography Following the old maps, he arrived just where he had planned to be. The landscape conformed to interpretation: that hill, those clumps of trees, the village gathered around the bridge. He saw the things he’d expected to see, given the forecasts, the time of year: the lone fox and the raven falling.  …

  • Splenomegaly

        The body has a lump.   The lump is growing.   Just under the rib cage on the left side reaching down.   A torn muscle; too many sit-ups rippling my abdomen.   And yet no pain. No pain at all.   And weight loss too. Yes.   But no surprise after all…

  • FOUR POEMS BY ANGUS OGILVY

    Coruscation Light accentuates dark.   In winter dawns I turn on my lamp and morning rolls over to midnight.   Dark accentuates light.   Relinquishing gloom I am dazzled by the lustre of the universe.   It doesn’t matter that the house burns down in the night in a preemptive attack on murk.   It…