frae the brig
swans soom intae ma sheddae
...beek ma hert




from the bridge
swans swim into my shadow
...warm my heart

atween
twa muins:
the watter




between
two moons:
the river

speuggies hunker
scuffin heids -
Voar inches in




sparrows sit
touching heads -
Spring inches in

derk wuid
throuch thrawn brainches, craw -
set o a wutch's bunnet




dark wood
through crooked branches, crow -
shape of a witch's hat

a maw
weirin intil -
a hauf-mindit sang




a gull
slowly approaching -
a half-remembered song

on the burn
a riven scrieve -
the hern unconcernt




on the stream
a torn-up letter -
the heron unconcerned

craw on the lum:
voar tirl
daffin wi'ts fedders




crow on the chimney:
spring breeze
playing with its feathers

Sabbath -
the priest in's green vestments
the daffins in thairs




Sunday -
the priest in his green vestments
the daffodils in theirs

frae heichest brainches
craws' muckle stramash:
Voar weirin intil?




from highest branches
crows' great commotion:
Spring approaching?

larach o
the auld jazz club:
binweed tooters




site of
the old jazz club:
convolvulus trumpets

bi the tod's bourie:
muinlit
banes




by the fox's den:
moonlit
bones

snaw on the aipple tree -
tosie i thair buds
the aipples




snow on the apple tree -
warm in their buds
the apples

owernicht:
the perk fou
o forleetit snawmen




overnight:
the park full
of abandoned snowmen

throuch the fite carse
the burn's bleck straik:
haiga




through the white landscape
the stream's black stroke:
haiga

fou muin -
the midnicht express
thunnerin throuch




full moon -
the midnight express
thundering through

i the hedgeraw:
the glentin
o speuggies



in the hedgerow:
the twinkling
of sparrows

crippilt
he fussles i the snaw
maks on his steeks'r ski poles




crippled
he whistles in the snow
pretends his sticks are ski poles

the auld fir:
yin green sheddae
on the burn




the old pine:
one green shadow
on the stream