bleezin sin -
93 mullion mile awa
pish-the-beds ruisin
blazing sun -
93 million miles away
dandelions praising
Tour De France
stramash
...sinbrust o spokes
crash
... sunburst of spokes
the maukie
prees ma haun -
auld mait, he flees aff
the bluebottle
tastes my hand -
old meat, he flies off
auld pit fou'd in
a meedie nou - a bummer
hings tapsalteerie, trauchlin
old mine filled in
a meadow now - a bee hangs
upside down, toiling
burd it the winnock -
granny'd
thraw'r hauns aw nicht
bird at the window -
grandmother
would wring her hands all night
Guid Friday -
bygaun the steadin
...hemmert brods
Good Friday -
passing the building site
...hammered nails
a rugby baw
fleets on the burn -
deuks wunner it the muckle egg
a rugby ball
floats on the stream -
ducks wonder at the huge egg
efter the drouth
flooers noddin druckenly
as ah gang by
after the drought
flowers nodding drunkenly
as I pass by
aumond flourish
oosie cluds
aumond flourish...
almond blossom
furry clouds
almond blossom...
sinlicht muives cannily
alang a wab threid
...shoogly tichtrope
sunlight moves carefully
along a web thread
...shaky tightrope
i the gairden
tentie o life streetchin
intae its simmer claes
in the garden
watching life stretching
into its summer clothes
Madonna stookie
bi the burd-bath -
aw the burds boo doon
Madonna statue
by the bird-bath -
all the birds bow down
happin the haugh
wull garlic
...voar confetti
covering the riverbank
wild garlic
...spring confetti