wab
fingerprentin
the haar




web
fingerprinting
the mist

hern
fest wi the jazz
o the burn




heron
engrossed in the jazz
of the stream

she steeks a gornal
ontae ma sark
...hyne awa muin




she sews a button
onto my shirt
...distant moon

aipples
aye on the tree -
a bairn's teethmerks




apples
still on the tree -
a child's toothmarks

fou muin -
on the cunyie
a hooer's paewae neb




full moon -
on the corner
a prostitute's pale face

hairst -
ower faw'n fegs
bawdrons an wesp scoorin




autumn -
over fallen figs
cat and wasp sparring

gran-bairn's veesit -
the morn
a 'super-glue' day




grandchild's visit -
tomorrow
a 'super-glue' day

thair shanks
a dour ABC -
deid jenny-nettles




their legs
a grim alphabet -
dead crane flies

hairst -
throuch the wuids
a gowden burn




autumn -
through the woods
a golden stream


(Mainichi Daily News)

the makar's but-an-ben:
nae Telly
juist a clog ingle




the poet's cottage:
no T.V.
just a log fire

donegal mornin
yin lum
reekless




donegal morning -
one chimney
smokeless


(for Seamus Heaney)

the stag
gralloched -
its croun o jaggies




the stag
hung to bleed -
its crown of thorns

shakit
i the wund's teeth:
butteries




shaken
in the wind's teeth:
butterflies

plooms faw
ligg
...peerie purpie hurdies




plums fall
lie
...little purple buttocks

furst burthday -
balloons,gulshichs,
an time's smirkin mou




first birthday -
balloons,cakes,
and time's grinning maw

buddleia
simmer howf
o drucken bees




buddleia
summer tavern
of drunken bees

maws
an kitties
the fushin fleet




gulls
and kittiwakes
the fishing fleet

swaws rattlin -
spairge
o tasht watergaws




waves crashing -
spray
of broken rainbows

pea pouin -
faither's skep fou
o apened huils




pea picking -
dad's basket full
of opened pods

quat
i the yalla gowans
an eenin's lowe




left
in the buttercups
an evening's glow