voar -
throuch gray vennels
a reid bike




spring -
through grey streets
a red bicycle

Mardi Gras -
burd-brods
thrang




Mardi Gras -
bird-tables
crowded

maw skirl
i the ceetie -
swaws o greenin




gull cry
in the city -
waves of longing

snawdraps
as on yer waddin day -
time's ayebydand bob




snowdrops
as on your wedding day -
time's eternal posy

awbodie's bodie
draps a note -
wuns back his blateness




ten times champion
fluffs a note -
wins back his modesty

on the pianny
a vause o daffins
...skimmerin Chopin




on the piano
a vase of daffodils
...shimmering Chopin

nicht puil -
fush hove
tae crottles o sterns




night pool -
fish rise
to crumbs of stars


(Mainichi Daily News)

granfaither
babby-settin -
bairn goos'm ower




grandfather
baby-sitting -
baby croodles him asleep

sparks hing on brainches -
throuch-licht's spectrum
flourishes




raindrops hang on branches -
through-light's spectrum
blossoms

brennin his auld lair -
reek's thrawins
o luve an daith




burning his old bed -
smoke's writhings
of love and death