blue bonnet tinglin
the wund-bells:
his refleckshun




blue tit tinkling
the wind-bells:
his reflection

voar sin -
jeelt articles
lintin




spring sun -
frozen things
relaxing

snawdraps
skimmer -
strinkilt muinlicht




snowdrops
glitter -
scattered moonlight

sabbath bells -
bairns stour
fir the ice-cream van




sunday bells -
children race
for the ice-cream van

bi the watterside:
sumyin's braith
hauden in a yalla balloon




by the riverside:
someone's breath
held in a yellow balloon

furst
daffin pikes
win forrit




first
daffodil spears
advance

deezie
in a roond o nirls:
the bairn




dizzy
in a circle of crumbs:
the child

bygaun parawd -
Miss Voar
wi'r green fingernails




passing parade -
Miss Spring
with her green fingernails

it the uncos:
jalouse
a page o blaest blues




at the news:
imagine
a page of bluest blues


(for Hortensia)

humphed tattie-bogle
syne sappie daundie:
hern the muckle guiser




hunched ragamuffin
then sleek dandy:
heron the great mummer

anither onfaw -
reid rab's peerie leam
beeks




another snowfall -
the robin's tiny glow
warms

the drumlie lassie's
oorie skirls -
petals trummle i the vause




the troubled girl's
chilling screams -
petals tremble in the vase