on the waashin rope
speuggies
shooglin thirsels dry




on the washing line
sparrows
shaking themselves dry

a thochtie phone caw  -
ettlin tae mak
faither youthie  agane




a worried phone call  -
trying to make
father young again

thristles  -
pittin on
thayr purpie bunnets




thistles  -
putting on
their purple bonnets

hauf doverin
bi the watterside  -
furst cluds, syne swans, haud by




half asleep
on the riverbank  -
first clouds, then swans, pass by

the dung-doon site
a'ready a pictur
o wullflooers




the demolition site
already a picture
of wildflowers

a bleckie chirms  -
the mornin glories'r
aw lugs




a blackbird sings  -
the morning glories
are all ears

junkie  -
a mornin snowk
o champit sitherwid




junkie  -
a morning snort
of crushed southernwood

pilkin fruit  -
thayr hauns tig
clam wi luve




picking fruit  -
their hands touch
sticky with love

ceetie maws
doverin on the lum
...dramein o swaws?




city gulls
dozing on the chimney
...dreaming of waves?

swans
biggin thair nest
...a gemme o jaik straes




swans
 building their nest
...a game of jack straws

on a clinty strand
his priesthood endit  -
a hern skares's quate




on a rocky shore
his priesthood ended  -
a heron shares his silence

gala day  -
wellies it the door
pensils o lichtnin




gala day  -
wellingtons at the door
streamers of lightning

mawin the girss  -

bummers stoor fir

the hinmaist dod o sookie

mowing the lawn  -

bees race for

the last patch of clover

anither year
the circus retours
...crans




the yearly circus
returns
...swifts

doonpoor  -
the abbot's
rainbowe colourt umberellae




monsoon  -
the abbot's
rainbow coloured umbrella

athort the loch
the hoolet's skelloch
lippers




across the lake
the owl's cry
ripples

the dule
o fumeless
roses




the sadness
of perfumeless
roses