a shilfie  -
sae colourfou
it sud threip




a chaffinch  -
so colourful
it should speak

muin
on a shank
coo persel




moon
on a stalk
cow parsley

tentie o the bygaun burn
a hauflin
taen tent o bi a bodach




watching the passing stream
a youth
watched by an old man

backlan kettle  -
granny wows thaim
wi'r gowan- cheens




ghetto picnic  -
grandmother  wows them
with her daisy-chains

skirlin
granfaither an bairn  -
fingers in's baird




screaming
grandfather and child  -
fingers in his beard

craw cecks  -
a fite muin
showls i the burn




crow shits  -
a white moon
distorts in the stream

craw hunkers aside me
blenkin a morse code
wi thae eerie een




crow sits beside me
blinking a morse code
with those weird eyes

soond o rowin chuckies  -
craw fushin
i the shallaes




sound of rolling rocks  -
crow  fishing
in the shallows

dunt on the kist  -
yirth frae an Irish brae
tae a Scots brae




thump on the coffin  -
earth from an Irish hill
to a Scottish hill

sparks skite
athort the gless
...dauncers on ice




raindrops skid
across the glass
...dancers on ice

throuch gean flourish
the weet  -
sterny  plainstanes




through cherry blossom
the rain  -
starry pavement

hauf-wey up

the cherry tree  --  snail

husnae leukit doon yit!

half-way up 

the cherry tree  -  snail

hasn't looked down yet!

bowsie bawdrons
losses agane
...speuggies hunker chirmin




fat cat
loses again
...sparrows sit singing

craw dooks's breid
i the burn
...intincter




crow dips his bread
in the stream
...intincter

mouin butteries:
her quate leid
...the gean




uttering butterflies:
her silent language
...the rose

doverin lang  -
the tulips
this year




sleeping late  -
the tulips
this year

voar drames
in yalla:
daffins




spring dreams
in yellow:
daffodils