“Tha Sinn Uisge (we are water)” by Kaila Gallacher

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Tha Sinn Uisge (we are water)

By Kaila Gallacher

We are all part water 
yearning to be realized 
                   by an ocean          
        we remember as home

Copyright ยฉ Kaila Gallacher

Kaila Gallacher is a chronically-ill, second-generation Scottish-Canadian who uses writing and art to explore the realities and possibilities of living in complex times. Her first chapbook, โ€œmo nighean: the universe inside the commaโ€, was published by The Soapbox Press in 2022.


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