Good Evening Friends,

Here is something new.

Thanks for reading,

AE

The Footballers

Watching the footballers in the rain,
On the quiet Isle of Uist.
Thoughts of Kearny, New Jersey,
Post WW I immigration
And Robert De Bruce,
Flash through my mind, in an instant.
After his stint in the RAF,
Grandfather Andrew came to America
Where for Sparkletts, he designed water bottles.
In those days, after the war,
there were other Scot’s in New Jersey.
And my Nan was from Elgin,
Or was it Aberdeen.
I know she and her side of the family lived
In Inverness for a while.

And it rained
And it rained

Uist won the day,
Beating the team from Skye.

AE McIntyre 2011
Memory traveling in the Western Isles, 1993