bellum frae the nursery  -
a bygaun bleckie
...wirms weiglin




noise from the nursery  -
a passing blackbird
...worms wriggling

dookin an heizin
swans kythin
...luver's kinch




dipping and rising
swans displaying
...lover's knot

lichtenin the mornin  -
sax jazzchiels
...aw deid




lightening the morning  -
six jazzmen
...all dead

amang the pansies
a tortieshall butterie
bein a flooer




among the pansies
a tortoiseshell butterfly
being a flower

butterie
follaein
the daffin steid




butterfly
following
the daffodil path

the aik's brainch
peelt
...breidth o a raip




the oak's branch
rubbed bare
...width of a rope

croonin
telegraph wires
...kintra busker




singing
telegraph wires
...country busker

hame frae nicht-shift  -
sclimin intae
her tosie indent




home from night-shift  -
climbing into
her warm indent