err thrabs

as swans win awa

...stoorin cluds

air throbs

as swans leave

...racing clouds

aince mair

Yule lowes i the herth

...poinsettia

again Christmas

flames in the hearth

...poinsettia.

friday clavers

roon the fush-van

...apen-mou'd mackrel

friday gossip

round the fish-van

...open-mouthed mackrel

anely hersel

an the Yule cactus  -

lanely covid blues

only herself

and the Christmas cactus  -

lonely covid blues

i the gairden

maggies line the palin  

...boogie--woogie pianny

in the garden

magpies line the fence  

...boogie-woogie piano

 pumpkin foondert

anely the caunle left

...tae licht anither

pumpkin slumped

only the candle left

...to light another

 aneath hairst treen

plainstanes buskit

in gowd leaf

beneath autumnal trees

pavements adorned

in gold leaf

 weet bates  -

leaves flettent atween pages

o yestreen an the day

rain beats  -

leaves flattened between pages

of yesterday and today

 broozilt gowan  -

petals ligg

...exclamation merks 

crushed daisy  -

petals lie

...exclamation marks