sumhin's dee'd  -
simmer flooers growe
throuch the banes



something's died  -
summer flowers grow
through the bones

deuks fleet intae
a sinblink - becumin
whit a sinblink's becum



ducks float into
a sunbeam  -  becoming
what a sunbeam's become

pandemic  -  the day
e'en the craw
muives twa metres awa



pandemic  -  today
even the crow
moves two metres away

shaucht fause-face  -
throuch the haar
a bleckie chirmin



discarded face-mask  -
through the mist
a blackbird trilling

lockdoon easement
brickies back tae wark  -
thair rousty truans




lockdown easing
bricklayers back to work  -
their rusty trowels

gairden picnic  -
efter the bairns win awa
the wesps redd up



garden picnic  -
after the children leave
the wasps clear up

pecht on the brae  -
tentie o the wund
fouin the bairn's draigon



breathless on the hillside  -
watching the wind
filling the child's kite

thankrife  -
a freithin eller flooer
hystit tae anither simmer




grateful  -
a frothing elder flower
raised to another summer

pandemic  -
in's owergrown gairden
a rose barein its hert



pandemic  -
in his overgrown garden
a rose bareing its heart

kirk lockdoon  -
rosary i the gairden
...bummers' thrummin chorus



church lockdown  -
rosary in the garden
...bees' humming chorus

the craiturs
hae thair ain pandemic 
...chowkin on plastic




the creatures
have their own pandemic -
choking on plastic

the cailleach
sel-isolatin  -  anely
a sheddae tae be gliskit




the old lady
self-isolating  -  only
a shadow to be seen