A fictional account of celebrations of Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897 in the N.E. Scottish harbour town of Stonehaven, inspired by a print of an Impressionist-era painting and holidays to sunny Stoney.
Stonehaven harbour: 1897, fiery gaslights
And pyrotechnic fireworks illuminate the scene
With fireballs’ glowing embers extinguished
In smoky nemesis. Fishing boats tied up awaiting
Sunrise and end of the public holiday.
Tolbooth, town-house, grocer’s shop, hostelry
Sketched out against the harbour wall;
Well-to-do married couple disembark from ferry-boat
To pier-side en route to libations and ceilidh dancing -
All labour suspended for duration of the festivities.
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