Sunday, December 30, 2012

the bairn
bletherin tae me -
brawer nor wurds




the baby
chatting to me -
better than words

Saturday, December 29, 2012

lichtin up space:
the super-nova
'HOGMANAY'!




lighting up space:
the super-nova
'HOGMANAY'!

Saturday, December 22, 2012

a scrieve hame
desert stoor
slairit




a letter home
desert dust
smudging

Wednesday, December 19, 2012

pinchin
skwurrel's nits
...hameless an hungert




stealing
squirrel's nuts
...homeless and hungry

Monday, December 17, 2012

echain
throuch the cosmos:
brattles shentin us




echoing
through the cosmos:
gunfire shaming us

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

cailleach
gaitherin hally
beads o bluid




old lady
gathering holly
beads of blood

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

throuch a fite lanscape
the bleck burn
...ink o a wunter haiku




through a white landscape
the black stream
...ink of a winter haiku
furst Yule -
forenent the tree
her een chyngin colour




first Christmas -
in front of the tree
her eyes changing colour

Saturday, December 01, 2012

wund amang the sprots -
the cailleach
tellin'r beads




wind among the reeds -
the old lady
telling her beads
festival's en -
a lane pipie stauns
sax inch frae the muin




festival's end -
a lone piper stands
six inches from the moon
causies skimmer i the weet -
the hallion's neb
dreeps intae's bucket




cobbles glitter in the rain -
the clown's face
drips into his pail