Alexander McCall Smith reads from How to Raise an Elephant

Alexander McCall Smith

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A poem written this week by Alexander to mark the late summer sunshine on the west coast of Scotland. Late summer Summer seemed to pass us by this year in Scotland, Until now, in September, unexpected In its generous showing of light and warmth, It invites us into its curtilage; Here we live beside a mountain, And before us a sea loch, a place Of long-drawn-out tides and seaweed; A rowan tree in full fruit is red and giving, And the sky, previously concealed Behind skirts of cloud like a shy chi

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