mornin yatter  -

ma neebours clype

...maggies jyne in

morning chatter  -

my neighbours gossip

...magpies join in

dung doon ceeties  -

tuithit gavel-ens staun

...a deevil's jeegsaw

bombed cities  -

toothed gable-ends stand

...a devil's jigsaw

dawn chorus  -

the yatter

o the bucket men

dawn chorus  -

the chitchat

of the bin men

hairst  -

duddie leaves

hing on

autumn  -

tattered leaves

hang on

back agane

tae snowk the peat reek

...lowes thit nivver gae oot

back again

to smell the peat smoke

...fires that never go out

hameless  -

doverin aneath the heidline:

IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?

homeless  -

asleep beneath the headline:

IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?

sica bonnie lassie  -

her spirlie fingers

cleuks o a draigon tattoo

such a lovely girl  -

her slender fingers

claws of a dragon tattoo

deid man's bells

a ticht fit

...bummer backs oot slawly

foxglove

a tight fit

...bee reverses out slowly

arthritic:

his banes runchin

wrochtin thayr ain aises

arthritic:

his bones grinding

making their own ashes

unner the tree

a fawen egg  -

sumhin's sookit oot the sangburd

under the tree

a fallen egg  -

something's sucked out the songbird