twa deid craws  -
the hystit bicker
o thayr tuim nest




two dead crows  -
the raised chalice
of their empty nest

Auschwitz  -
they skift'n daunced
aw the wye here:
twa peerie reid shuin




Auschwitz  -
they skipped and danced
all the way here:
two tiny red shoes

(holocaust day)

prood in's new
shuitin trews  -
cleidit tae kill




proud in his new
shooting trousers  -
dressed to kill

faimily tae bide  -
the hoose
fou o peerie claes




family to stay  -
the house
full of tiny clothes

wunter sin  -
craw's skyrie
fedders




winter sun  -
crow's glittering
feathers

fuffs o freesty braith  -
the auld engine driver's
sonnets o stame




puffs of frosty breath  -
the old train driver's
tales of steam

ne'er day  -
a souch geegles
amang the 'deid men'




new year's day  -
a breeze giggles
amongst the empties

throuch the schuil palin
peerie sheenin nebs:
forsythia




through the school fence
tiny shining faces:
forsythia

daffins
upwreilin  -
voar on the mairch




daffodils
uprising  -
spring on the march

brakfast
knock knappin
...egg'n spuin race




breakfast
clock ticking
...egg and spoon race

fou muin
amang
the threwen snawbaws




full moon
amongst
the thrown snowballs

peerie fuffbaw
hert on'ts sleeve
...Reid Rab



liittle puffball
heart on its sleeve
...robin

alane
on a stane
hern ootgawks a broon coo




alone
on a stone
heron outstares a brown cow

myndin slides
 we wrocht wi tackety-buits
...schuil's juist no the samen




remembering slides
we made with tacketed boots
...school's just not the same

hogmanay  -
twa hameless daunce:
sowls in haun-me-doon boadies




new year's eve  -
two homeless dance:
souls in hand-me-down bodies

mornin speuggie
fouin
ma quate




morning sparrow
filling
my silence

ne'er's day  -
craw oor furst-fuit
...derk ootrel




new year's day  -
crow our first-foot
...dark stranger

muckle migration  -
it the sneckit mairches
thay're tentie o the geese




great migration  -
at the closed borders
they watch the geese