Thursday, August 31, 2006

yirdit the deein moose -
tentie o the mools
aw day




buried the dying mouse -
watched the grave
all day
mauks:
set
o the deid moose




bluebottles:
shape
of the dead mouse
in a dub
slawly mizzlin
cluds scud




in a puddle
slowly evaporating
clouds race
leaves fawin
in the gairden
a lane buttery veesits




leaves falling
in the garden
a lone butterfly visits

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

hairst redd up
ice-lollie steeks
deep i the hedge




autumn clear up
ice-lollie sticks
deep in the hedge
in the sinflooer's
derk iris
a skinklin galaxy




in the sunflower's
dark iris
a twinkling galaxy

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

the nicht
hoo the lift
pents itsel




tonight
how the sky
paints itself
autistic laddie
thrums's air-guitar
as guid as onie




autistic boy
strums his air-guitar
as good as any
ettlin tae jalouse
yer hit-an-miss steid -
snail




trying to figure out
your hit-and-miss trail -
snail
a lane swallae
wins ower the-day
pittin aff nae time




a lone swallow
passes over today
wasting no time
simmer dwinin
bum-bummin i the gairden
deein doun




summer fading
the humming in the garden
dying down

Sunday, August 27, 2006

craw on the lamp-post
spreids's tail-fedders
a rax ma striddle




crow on the lamp-post
spreads his tail-feathers
I lengthen my stride

Saturday, August 26, 2006

hinmaist week o simmer
reid rab a'ready
joukin amang us




last week of summer
the robin already
dodging among us

Friday, August 25, 2006

moch i the chaumer -
a drame o gowd stour
amang ma chist herr




moth in the bedroom -
I dream of gold dust
amongst my chest hair
brod set
wytein the veesitors
e'en the speens hearkenin




table set
awaiting the visitors
even the spoons listening
siller i the sin
snail's stravaigins
throuch the nicht




silver in the sun
snail's wanderings
through the night

Thursday, August 24, 2006

glaizie pews
kneelers wurn smeeth:
releegious airt




shiny pews
kneelers worn smooth:
religious art
curdooin ower -
a train throu-gaun
intae the lown




lovemaking over -
a train passing
into the silence
leaves
colour o'r herr yince
flichterin throuch thaim




leaves
colour of her hair once
running through them

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

bummer stottin
sowpit lavender aw day -
cud be feelin blae




bee staggering
supped lavender all day -
could be feeling blue
a stoop o bindweed:
stertit aff
as ma crummock




a pillar of bindweed:
started off
as my walking stick
a muckle lift -
on a lum-heid
a bleckie chirms intae't




an enormous sky -
on the chimney-pot
a blackbird sings into it

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

in the dub
montbretia petals
bumbaizin bawdrons




in the pool
montbretia petals
confusing the cat
Dylan lilts
sin sheens throuch
the threids o a wab




Dylan sings
sun shines through
the threads of a web

Saturday, August 19, 2006

hauf-tyme baund -
yin chiel sheds himsel
wi a cymbal




half-time band -
one musician shades
himself with a cymbal

Friday, August 18, 2006

frae yestreen's
thunner-plump
a singul drap hings




from last night's
thunder-storm
a single drop hangs
flee amang the murlins
laundit cannie
dichts's hauns




fly amongst the crumbs
landed lucky
rubs his hands

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

moch
thrabs on the lozen
ayont: the muin




moth
pulses on the pane
beyond: the moon
cauld causeys
ahint steekit hingers
sheddaes oxter




cold streets
behind closed curtains
shadows embrace
keek-o-day
tenement winnocks hystit -
glowein fags




dawn
tenement windows raised -
glowing cigarettes
watterside dauner -
sumthin's stowen a hurl
tae the kirk



riverside walk -
something's hitched a ride
to church

Monday, August 14, 2006

twa maws
tentie o the towerist
birl syne shape thirsels




two gulls
aware of the tourist
pirouette and pose

Sunday, August 13, 2006

watter hauden
i the geranium's leaf -
blinnin sinlicht




water held
in the geranium's leaf -
blinding sunlight
hame frae the shows
faither drapt him aff -
weirs's han-ban fir days




home from the fair
father dropped him off -
wears his wrist-band for days

Saturday, August 12, 2006

stanes at the winnock -
ma laddie's smirk
ma nakitness




stones at the window -
my son's smile
my nakedness

Friday, August 11, 2006

airlie mornin
weet
...cuddies sheenin




early morning
rain
...horses shining

Thursday, August 10, 2006

cuil, smeeth, sweengin
roon stanes, rairin
ower damheids - jazz o watters




cool, smooth, swinging
round stones, roaring
over weirs - jazz of rivers
muntain kirk
the winnock's palette
on the flair




mountain chapel
the window's palette
on the floor

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

flee tissles i the wab -
bethankit fir a skirlin
we cannae hear




fly struggles in the web -
be thankful for a screaming
we can't hear
uptoon -
bien baudrons
gove at ma throu-gaun




uptown -
comfortable cats
stare as I pass through

Monday, August 07, 2006

colourfou butterie
spreids oot on the clint
a fause neb wi fey een




colourful butterfly
spreads out on the rock
a mask with fearsome eyes
juist the sma'st grue
moose,
nou that a ken ye




just the least shiver
mouse,
now that I know you
the gairden
fou o thrisseldoon
...airtin awa




the garden
full of thistledown
...leaving
the lily's heid
faws wi a dunt
stamens wult




the lily's head
falls with a thud
stamens wilt

Sunday, August 06, 2006

in trinnle trinks
fou o weet:
oor nebs




in chariot ruts
full of rainwater:
our faces
ilka oor
the timmer gowk
cries it wrang




every hour
the cuckoo-clock
gets it wrong

Friday, August 04, 2006

ma bricht sark -
the reid-admiral's
in a mistak




my bright shirt -
the red-admiral's
made a mistake

Thursday, August 03, 2006

butteries coortin
she's pawkie, he's eydent
...ower the ruiftaps




butterflies courting
she flirts, he's intent
...over the rooftops
hotel shunkie -
a singul stern
o confetti




hotel toilet -
a single star
of confetti
twa stags stieven
on the brae
...a foggies' vaige




two stags stiffen
on the hillside
...a pensioners' outing

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

simmer dwynin
throuch a lozen
runklie wi weet




summer fading
through a pane
wrinkled with rain
the pit-heid
pentit an flooert
the pit fowk won awa



the pit-head
painted and flowered
the pit folk dead

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

abuin the barracks
a fou muin
...the gaird's bayonet




above the barracks
a full moon
...the sentry's bayonet
...sodgers' sheddies
athort his
govein een




...soldiers' shadows
across his
staring eyes
killin hoose quate nou -
day-set reiddens
the causies




abattoir silent now -
sunset reddens
the cobbles