reddin
her pillae -
a fou muin




plumping
her pillow -
a full moon

a hinmaist photy -
her murtherer
preein'r chaft




a last photograph -
her murderer
kissing her cheek

clappit
agin the bairn's heid:
the mither's chaft




concave
against the baby's head:
the mother's cheek

his guidwife gane
the bodach
funds a seep in's pig




his wife gone
the old man finds a leak
in his hot-water bottle

lang intae the nicht
a dinsome ceilidh -
wund throuch the causeys




long into the night
a riotous party -
wind through the streets

bi the causey
a dead mappie -
stieve in'ts hinmaist lowp




by the roadside
a dead rabbit -
stiff in its last leap

the peerie moose -
scartin scartin
a thirl i ma sloom




the little mouse -
scratching scratching
a hole in my sleep

kirk doors
wide tae the wa -
a pickle leaves




church doors
flung wide -
a few leaves

Yule hoalidays -
the dominie
weirs antlers




Christmas holidays -
the teacher
wears antlers

ilka mornin
Reid Rab -
the hovein sin on's breist




every morning
a robin -
the rising sun on his breast

the makar's but an ben
tint in yowden-drift -
a threid o reek




the poet's cottage
lost in drifting snow -
a thread of smoke

rimie haar -
the wabster's daikert
the gean tree




frosty mist -
the spider's decorated
the cherry tree

brennin leaves -
reek hoves
claps tae the brainches




burning leaves -
smoke rises
clings to the branches

Yule lichts daizzlin -
deep i the gangrel's kep
dowie broon placks




Christmas lights dazzling -
deep in the beggar's cap
dull brown pennies

the thrissel leaf:
its ain glisterin
eeshogels




the thistle leaf:
its own glittering
icicles

the rooster's skirl
snecks throuch the mornin's freist -
het eggs amang the strae




the cockrel's cry
cuts through the morning's frost -
warm eggs amongst the straw

loass o a freen -
a brucken brainch
fleits awa doonstream




loss of a friend -
a broken branch
floats away downstream

muinlit:
a shilpit bawdrons
his bunt waffin in space




moonlit:
a skinny cat
his tail waving in space

her wechty pokes faw
she faws -
snaw moutens on her govein een




her heavy bags fall
she falls -
snow melts on her staring eyes

wund i the lum -
brucken airticles
stour alang the causey




wind in the chimney -
broken things
race along the street

agin the derk lift
reid-lit brainches
...vascular




against the dark sky
red-lit branches
...vascular

dubs reiddenin -
anither day
ens




puddles reddening -
another day
ends

advent caunles
blinterin -
the wund's lang raik




advent candles
flickering -
the wind's long journey