craw's tellin:
'maggies' -
neebourheid rype-pooches




crow's warning:
'magpies' -
neighbourhood pick-pockets

maws tulyie
fawin fedders
o snaw




gulls squabble
falling feathers
of snow

the eild o shauchlin -
sneckin frae the slae
a stieve nibbie




the age of shuffling -
cutting from the blackthorn
a sturdy stick

auld buits -
sonnet o a vaig
in ilk runkle




old boots -
tale of a journey
in each wrinkle

throuch the gless
a furst wesp
...gyte it ma finger




through the glass
a first wasp
...rages at my finger

hame
tae a reeng o bricht nebs:
pinkies




home
to a ring of bright faces:
primroses

weshin
at fou sail -
merch wund's bumfelt chowks




washing
at full sail -
march wind's puffed cheeks

granny's tuim hoose -
heicht-merks
scartit on the standart




grandmother's empty cottage -
height-marks
scratched on the door-post

voar watters -
the priest hidlinswise
daubs's rheums




spring waters -
the priest secretly
dabs his rheumatism