a new mornin  -

speuggies' chirmins

droon - oot the warl-web's mirk

a new morning  -

sparrows' chirpings

drown-out the world-web's gloom

bombed schuil  -

refleckit i the bluid

a warl sypein awa

bombed school  -

reflected in the blood

a world seeping away

feenished quarryin the wurds

the cairn biggit

...rist in'ts shade

finished quarrying the words

the megalith built

...rest in its shade

( for Gabriel Rosenstock)

in a derk neuk

o plaguit yirth

a singul daffin glowes

in a dark corner

of plagued earth

a single daffodil glows

i the camellia buss

Reid Rab's nestin

...buds reiddenin

in the camellia bush

the robin is nesting

...buds reddening

 i the gairden

a burd chirms its hert oot

an conduks wi's tail

in the garden

a bird sings its heart out

and conducts with its tail

nicht's weet aye hings

on nakit brainches  -

sin sheens throuch a glessy tree

night's rain still hangs

on naked branches  -

sun shines through a glassy tree

hern hunkers lik a bodach  -

a plowp!

an he's youthie agane

heron sits like an old man  -

a plop!

and he's young again

daffins

the furst year set aff lang syne

...thair sheenin nebs

daffodils

the first year planted long ago

,,,their shining faces

hern an me  -

craigs beeried, humphy-backit

i the snell wund

heron and I  -

necks buried, humpbacked

in the cold wind

rowein thunner

an streengs o weet

...a caumin sitar

rolling thunder

and strings of rain

...a calming  sitar

throuch Mass

a  trappit bummer drones

...dree

through Mass

a trapped bee drones

...panic

causey thiggers  -

abuin thair heids

burds trauchle nest biggin

street beggars  -

above their heads

birds labour nest building

freenly neebour  -

her daffins

heald intae ma gairden

friendly neighbour  -

her daffodils

lean into my garden

on the  peth a riven weeng  -

bluid on the pen  

fir an ugsome sonnet

on the path a torn-out wing  -

blood on the quill  

for a gory story

voar  -  the burn's tuin

hus the bodach jiggin

...in's heid!

spring  -  the stream's tune

has the old man dancing

...in his head!

waashin day  -

i the winnock

cumuli an freith

washing day  -

in the window

cumuli and suds

bowsterous wund  

treen threshin  -

skeery i the craw's nest

fierce wind

trees thrashing  -

scary in the crow's nest

scutchin the hedge

he reflecks

on the lenth o's baird

trimming the hedge

he reflects

on the length of his beard

the gairden's furst bummer  -

its slaw daunce

the gawpin flooer

the garden's first bee   -

its slow dance

the gaping flower