the windae cleaner's

left hingin wattergaws

awwhaur

the window cleaner

has left hanging rainbows

everywhere

sumhin sheens 

unner the ice  -

craw's pickaix neb navvyin

something shines

under the ice  -

crow's pickaxe beak navvying

 It the schuil yetts

the bodach draps a tear

fir the days o mak-on

at the school gates

the old man sheds a tear

for the days of make-believe

coorse wedder  -

days o lowpin lowes

an lood snocherin

rough weather  -

days of leaping flames

and loud snoring

i the gairden's derk neuk

licht gaithers

...snawdraps

in the garden's dark corner

light gathers

...snowdrops

aw edges

an splairges o pent  -

efter the clippin

all edges

and splashes of paint  -

after the shearing

the auld pub

dung doun  -

they staun thair, mous fou o stoor

the old pub

demolished  -

they stand there, mouths full of dust

wund throuch the gairden  -

 coo-bells a wund-chimes...

a  kin o jazz

wind through the garden  -

cow-bells and wind-chimes...

a kind of jazz