Coaxed apart, you think you see
through me, but all you see’s

the other side: my heart’s
in each particle, each cell

of the bright lump in the black chest
of the island I’m from,

the one you’ll never find.
I’m nowhere, everywhere,

shedding sand
like grains of light.

(excerpt from The last Woman on the island (2016) by Sharon Black

Images taken on the Isle of Bute, Scotland 2023