it the monastery door  -

a youthie lad

pous the chyne

at the monastery door

a young man

pulls the chain

maternity ward  -

pilgrimers

comin an gaein

maternity ward  -

pilgrims

coming and going

San Gimignano  -

the youthie painter's claucht 

the toon's cubist sheddaes

San Gimignano  -

the young painter's caught 

the town's cubist shadows

oot

wi a robot dug  -

naebody wants tae pat

out

with  a robot dog. -

nobody wants to pat

sinlicht

doon throuch the treen

...camouflagit sinbather

sunlight

down through the trees

... camouflaged sunbather

ootby the airport winnock  -

burds sweelin

...anely burds

outside the airport window  -

birds circling

...only birds

anither peer faws  -

mappie's lugs

pookin

another pear falls  -

rabbit's ears

twitching

oot fir the bucketmen  -

a bairn's beddie an 

a bairncare haunbeuk

out for the binmen  -

a child's cot

and a childcare handbook

wund

throuch the wuid  -

the dreepin weet

wind

through the forest  -

the dripping rain

(Spiegel Im Speigel)

a leam o licht

throuch the hinger  -

moch's hud a wamefou

a ray of light

through the curtain  -

moth's had a bellyfull

doontoon  -

ootby the kirk

a hauf-chowed aipple

downtown -

outside the church

a half-eaten apple