clowtin a peerie flee  -

bumbazed it the bluid straik

...an the guilt

swatting a tiny fly  -

amazed at the blood streak

...and the guilt

yowlin wund  

streeks'n boos a wab- threid

...blusey mornin

howling wind  

stretches and bends a web-thread

...bluesy morning

auld fusherman  

his arthritic banes

...a craikin boat

old fisherman

his arthritic bones

...a creaking boat

dawin haudin in  -

the knock's fissog

...narrer an narrer

dawn approaching  -

the clock's face

...nearer and nearer

the maisic o buits

slaw mairchin

...the seelence o london

the music of boots

slow marching

...the silence of London

(Elizabeth 11 funeral)

the bodach 

gairdenin

...muckle bluid

the old man

gardening

...much blood

the burn murmells: truant  -

schuil-days guddlin

clauchtin nocht bit pleesur

the stream murmurs: truant -

school-days fishing

catching nothing but pleasure

a queen hus slippit awa  -

the skep thrabs

wi hert-scaud

a queen has died  -

the hive throbs

with grief

snail

stickit tae ma winnock

...slubbery pree

snail

stuck to my window

...slobbery kiss

 'makkin wey fir ithers' -

faither's answer tae daith

...sneddin this verra tree

'making way for others'  -

father's answer to death

...pruning this very tree

...

efter sica stour

the saft ruff

o a seepin rhone

after such a thunderstorm

the soft beat

of a leaky gutter

on the suicide's puil

a brust fitbaw

...the gemme's a bogie

on the suicide's pool

a burst football

..the game is ended.

claucht in a wab  -

rouk's

ghaistly presence

caught in a web  -

mist's

ghostly presence