lockdoon  -
gean floorish
cum  an gane...alane




lockdown  -
cherry blossom
come and gone...alone

coronavirus  -
the bairns waff, granny greits
ahint steekit winnocks




coronavirus  -
the children wave, grandma cries
behind closed windows

fauty can-apener  -
bluid i the beans
...deceesions!




faulty tin-opener  -
blood in the beans
...decisions!

blue bonnets'
dawn chorus  -  spatrels
on a stave o brainches




blue tits'
dawn chorus  -
notes on a stave of branches

rugby practeese  -
they hyst'm heich
...his haunprent agin the sin




rugby practice  -
they hoist him high
...his handprint against the sun

saft  souch  -
the skwurrel chynges
frae grey tae siller




gentle breeze  -
the squirrel changes
from grey to silver

Yoga i the perk  -
voar flooers
streetchin




Yoga in the park  -
spring flowers
stretching

autistic laddie
blithe i the sin
...hodden, a bleck bawdrons snokes




autistic boy
glorying in the sun
...hidden, a black cat hunts

bleckie's neb
brichtenin
sic a dreich mornin




blackbird's beak
brightening
such a dull morning

the yirth draws slaw
ower a hinmaist stane
...grannie's but'n'ben




the earth slowly covers
a last stone
...grandmother's cottage

climate chynge  -
maws soomin
i the tattie dreels




climate change  -
gulls swimming
in the potato furrows

canada geese
hae drapt by  -
arctic wunds i thair weengs




canada geese
have dropped in  -
arctic winds in their wings

MS  -
his nummin mou
words left hingin




MS  -
his numbing lips
a suspeded sentence

mornin Mass  -
throuch the apen door
the snowk o new-bakit breid




morning Mass  -
through the open door
the smell of new-baked bread

wunter nicht 
fou muin an sterns
...a snawbaw fecht




winter night 
full moon and stars
...a snowball fight

weet fir days  -
oorie vices
i the rone-pipes




rain for days  -
eerie voices
in the drainpipes

pianny practeese  -
i the gairden a maggie
wund lipperin its fedders




piano practise  -
in the garden a magpie
wind rippling its feathers

saw nebs gaither
females gae unner  -  fegs!
houghmagandie in cauld watter




goosanders gather
females go under  -  ugh!
sex in cold water

blowster
throuch the scrappie's
...oorie orchestral




gale
through the scrap yard
...eerie orchestral

telegraph wires
throuch the firs
speuggies cryin




telegraph wires
through the pine trees
sparrows calling