Each month we will be featuring a guest writer and this month's contribution is from Doug Tanoury. He grew up in Detroit and still lives in the area with his wife and three children. Doug has been published in Writer's Digest, Ego Flights Alura Quarterly and A Year On The Avenue (Two Dog Press). Online he has been published by The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Eclectica, Poetry Magazine, Agnieszka's Dowry, Savoy Magazine, Zuzu's Petals and others. The greatest influence on Doug's work was the 7th grade poetry anthology used in Sister Debra's English class: Reflections On A Gift Watermelon Pickle And Other Modern Verse, Stephen Dunning, Edward Lueders and Hugh Smith, (c)1966 by Scott Foresman & Company.

My Own Scotland

She will call me Doo-glass
And sit under a tree and
Talk to me

As I fish for trout in the
River Clyde along a tree
Lined bank

She speaks from beneath
A straw hat with wide brim
Face hidden

I stand in the water casting
Into the sun's gilded surface
Again again

Her words carried on the
River sounds to me standing
In the current

The water cool and forceful
Against my calves and I
Question her

Beneath her straw hat
Her face enshadowed I ask
Her of

Heraclitus and if this is not
The same river from
Minutes ago

Am I a new man for standing
In this changed and different
River Clyde

She will call me Doo-glass
Lifting the brim of her hat to
Show her smile

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