suddent shour  -

oot frae the puppies heid

a hauf-droont bummer

sudden shower  -

out from the poppy's head

a half-drowned bee

 the burn gaein drouthie  -

deuks

hauf soomin hauf stravaigin

the stream drying up  -

ducks

half swimming half walking

i the doactor's gairden  -

an epidemic

o growthe

in the doctor's garden  -

an epidemic

o weeds

midnicht scavengers  -

streengs o spaghetti

i the muinlicht

midnight scavengers  -

strings of spaghetti

in the moonlight

i the x-ray dept.

a pentin:

The Wreck

in the x-ray department

a painting:

The Wreck

bawdrons dovers on ma lap  -

his dwams'r cleuks

apenin an cleekin

cat dozes on my lap  -

his dreams are claws

opening and closing

e'enin feedin tyme  -

crans

mak a ballet o't

evening feeding time  -

swifts

make a ballet of it

the maisic o Peru

skails intae the kirk   -

the priest's guitar practeese

the music of Peru

spills into the church  -

the priest's guitar practice

on the waashin-rope  -

speuggies an pegs 

in a raw

on the washing-line  -

sparrows and pegs 

in a row

throuch the toon's vennels

crans huntin

...glentin arraheids

through the town's alleyways

swifts hunting

...flashing arrowheads