Wednesday, April 29, 2009

burds gaither -
the beadle
slawly mizzlin




birds gather -
the gravedigger
slowly disappearing

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

maw's sheddae
athort the burn
the fisher kets's heuk




gull's shadow
across the stream
the angler casts his hook

Monday, April 27, 2009

ootby ma winnock
in bawdrons' green een
sheddae o a nieve




outside my window
in cat's green eyes
shadow of a fist
immigration:
the bairn's derk fingers
kinchin's mither's herr




immigration:
the child's dark fingers
knotting his mother's hair

Saturday, April 25, 2009

sweirt watter -
sauch's sheddae
thair an yit no thair




lazy river -
willow's shadow
there and yet not there

Thursday, April 23, 2009

on the wey
tae the rugby:
rosettes o aipple flourish




on the way
to the rugby match:
rosettes of apple blossom
a tide o fitecaps -
on the girse
magnolia petals




an ocean of whitecaps -
on the grass
magnolia petals

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Yirth Day -
amang the sterns
a gairden




Earth Day -
amongst the stars
a garden


(this appeared in a sequence on Gillena cox's
web page celebrating Earth Day)
fankilt bummer:
wund frae's weengs
shills ma fingers




trapped bumble-bee:
wind from its wings
chills my fingers

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

on waste grun
they argie -
thrissels' glaizie stugs




on waste ground
they argue -
thistles' glittering spikes
weet throuch
gean flourish:
neb-pentin the bodach




rain through
cherry blossom:
face-painting the old man

Monday, April 20, 2009

her laddie scauls'r:
her dementia
pouin oot the flooers




her son scolds her:
her dementia
pulling out the flowers
hait
hingin
i the gean flourish




heat
hanging
in the cherry blossom

Sunday, April 19, 2009

i the sin, the jakie
muives's yill
intae's bouk's sheddae




in the sun, the wino
moves his beer
into his body's shadow

Friday, April 17, 2009

stane
drapt i the dub -
muin wammles awa




stone
dropped in the pool -
moon wriggles away
on a snell wund
gean flourish
lavein




on a cold wind
cherry blossom
leaving

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

pink freith
o gean flourish -
speuggies dookin




pink froth
of cherry blossom -
sparrows bathing

Saturday, April 11, 2009

pish-the-beds -
a'ready jalousin
the ghaists ye'll turn tae




dandelions -
already imagining
the ghosts you'll become

Friday, April 10, 2009

fou muin -
her goonie
a silken haip on the flair




full moon -
her nightgown
a silken heap on the floor

Wednesday, April 08, 2009

her shock:
the faw'n neb
the feart gran-bairns




her stroke:
the fallen face
the frightened grandchildren
saw neb
heid in'ts weeng - fleein
in anither dramescape




gooseander
head in its wing - flying
in another dreamscape

Tuesday, April 07, 2009

muinlicht -
gean flourish
sens it back




moonlight -
cherry blossom
sends it back
furst deuklins -
bawdrons'
yalla een




first ducklings -
cat's
yellow eyes
gean flourish
flutherin doon:
haps the swan




cherry blossom
fluttering down:
covers the swan

Monday, April 06, 2009

tint whalp -
yowfin
frae the daffins




lost puppy -
barking
from the daffodils
wino -
sindoon
in's een




wino -
sundown
in his eyes

Thursday, April 02, 2009

owerhingin forsythia:
the burn
hotterin yalla




overhanging forsythia:
the stream
bubbling yellow

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

agin the blae lift
gean flourish
cluds




against the blue sky
cherry blossom
clouds