hairst -
whurrin o weengs
athort the gairden




autumn -
whirring of wings
across the garden

muinlicht dookin:
snail
on the funtain-nude's erse




moonlight bathing:
snail
on the fountain-nude's bottom

hairst blawin in -
leaves
gaein stieve




autumn blowing in -
leaves
stiffening

daunce-ha dung doon -
throuch the grummel
youthie treen sweyin




demolished dance-hall -
through the rubble
young trees swaying

gran-bairn
on'r sweeng
...pendle skelpin




grandchild
on her swing
...pendulum ticking

rackets -
her een
skinklin




fireworks -
her eyes
sparkling

kingfisher's
blae straik -
nae time fir yin braith e'en




kingfisher's
blue streak -
no time for one breath even

weet -
frae burn tae clud
the yin watter




rain -
from stream to cloud
the one water

lichts on
dominies busk -
hinmaist day o seelence




lights on
teachers prepare -
last day of silence

craws heave up -
the bodach
apens's bleck umberellae




crows rise up -
the old man
opens his black umbrella

fou muin -
hystin
a freithy yill




full moon -
raising
a frothy beer

throuch her gairden
o sinflooers
the cailleach flichters




through her garden
of sunflowers
the old lady flickers

dug stourin
throuch the sned girse:
his green neb




dog racing
through the cut grass:
his green nose

burn in spate -
the snaik's
runkilt bouk




flooded stream -
the slug's
wrinkled body

throuch the sparred pailin
her whurly claes-drier -
breeks gae racin by




through the slatted fence
her rotary-drier -
trousers go racing past

moch agin
ma lichtit winnock -
a derk warl at's rig




moth against
my lighted window -
a dark world at its back

days o weet -
cuddy purls
washt tae bricht caff




days of rain -
horse manure
washed to bright chaff

ceilidh
i the perk -
leaves dreepin




concert
in the park -
leaves dripping

the laddie's jaur
o leddy launners, smusht:
a reid spatch spreedin




the boy's jar
of ladybirds, smashed:
a red patch spreading

in's auld buit:
the aye-bricht petal
o a muntain flooer




in his old boot:
the still-bright petal
of a mountain flower

the gairdner
heelds ower's flooers -
they gove up at'm



the gardener
leans over his flowers -
they gaze up at him

hinmaist train gane -
muinlit rails
mizzlin




last train gone -
moonlit rails
disappearing

maisic o the weet -
the tom-tom
o a laiky dreep




music of the rain -
the tom-tom
of a leaky drip