Pace  -
bairns rowe thair eggs
threy craws hing on pikit weer




Easter  -
children roll their eggs
three crows hang on barbed wire

deef he taks tent
o the bleckie's neb
...furm o the sang i the braith




deaf he watches
the blackbird's beak
...shape of the song in the breath

voar's taen
buds swall  -  derk neuks
lit up in daffin licht



spring's taken
buds swell  -  dark corners
lit up in daffodil light

cloody day  -
bawdrons
staps on sinlicht




cloudy day  -
cat
steps on sunlight

attercap an me
stookie-still
...snaggit in a wab o wunnerment




spider and I
stock-still
...caught in a web of wonderment

souch  -
tulip petals faw
...peerie boaties shooglin




breeze  -
tulip petals fall
...little boats rocking

wunter fooneral  -
we stoor intae
the crematorium




winter funeral  -
we rush into
the crematorium

mither's day  -
hauflins reid-nebbed
ahint bobs o flooers




mother's day  -
young men blushing
behind bunches of flowers

hame frae weir  -
yin fuitprent
i the snaw




home from war  -
one footprint
in the snow

in granfaither's gairden
a snawman fir'm
...slawly mizzlin




in grandfather's garden
a snowman for him
...slowly disappearing

maitin granfaither  -
the wye
he yince maitit me




feeding grandfather  -
the way
he once fed me

fiteoot  -
intae the tuim flooer pats
snaw/draps




whiteout  -
into the empty flower pots
snow/drops

leukin oot
on the snawy gairden  -
hou it mocks ma scriever's jam




looking out
on the snowy garden  -
how it mocks my writer's block