wunter blowster  -
on nakit brainches
speuggies' rodeo




winter storm  -
on naked branches
sparrows' rodeo

fegs!
the wrang kirkyaird
...craws gairdin the yetts




oops!
the wrong cemetery
...crows guarding the gates

Yule fluidin  -
an unnerwatter
shooglin-cuddie




Christmas  flooding  -
an underwater
rocking-horse

Yule e'en  -
neist tae the crib
blawort brustin intae life




Christmas eve  -
next to the crib hyacinths
bursting into life

trystin wi an auld fere  -
the monie gaps
in's gams




meeting an old friend  -
the many gaps
in his teeth

cluds bairge
crecks kythe
...lichtnin




clouds collide
cracks appear
...lightning

crematorium  -
hungert craws
roond the lum




crematorium  -
hungry crows
round the chimney

i the nursery gairden
they stoor'n tummle
...skwurrels




in the nursery garden
they race and tumble
...squirrels

coffee  -
oam sweels'n shoogles
...sambas o Brazil




coffee  -
steam swirls and shakes
...sambas of Brazil

transmugrifee'd  -
her umberellae
tae a siller attercap




metamorphosed  -
her umbrella
to a silver spider

the chinee lassie's smirk  -
aw day:
cluds, flooers, bawdrons... smirkin




the chinese girl's smile  -
all day:
clouds, flowers, cat...smiling

chinee hameless -
ootby's cairdboard hoose
...his shuin




chinese homeless -
outside his cardboard house
...his shoes

wunter's nakit brainches -
Alzheimer patients
gove throuch the taigilment




winter's bare branches -
Alzheimer patients
gaze through the entanglement

snarlt mappie -
govin oop
it craw's bleck corss




snared rabbit -
gazing up
at crow's black cross

dreich mornin -
umberellaes
mushroomin




wet morning -
umbrellas
mushrooming

shairly gliskit
frae space:
Yirth's caunles fir the deid



surely seen
from space:
Earth's candles for the dead

amang the sterns
a skimmerin daunce
...fireflees




among the stars
a glittering dance
...fireflies

mallard deuks
bobbin in a reeng
...emerant carket




mallard ducks
bobbing in a circle
...emerald necklace

november tirl
throuch the wab -
a deid flee dirls




november breeze
through the web -
a dead fly quivers

(All Souls' Day)

ablow the rodden tree
the cailleach reddin snaw
...her reid neb




below the rowan tree
the old lady clearing snow
...her red nose