News at Eleven: It was a string of oranges on a nail

that captured Brian Johnstone's eye: a vivid fragment of the past. "I was struck by the poignancy of that, that someone hung those up to use and they're still there. As if someone just walked out the door and left it, which is such a metaphor for the way we go out of life."

So it became a poem, "On Minos Street".

from The Scotsman: Interview: Brian Johnstone, poet

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