swans
doverin on the snaw:
asleep on the snow:
wunter mornin -
throuch lace hingers
jeelt brainches
winter morning -
through lace curtains
frozen branches
new neebours -
thair bawdrons veesits
weirin a reid boo-tie
new neighbours -
their cat visits
wearing a red bow-tie
hogmanay rackets
brustin bricht fir saiconts
...the leal muin
new year fireworks
bursting bright for seconds
...the constant moon
alang the plainstanes -
Yule treen untinselled
heeld on the buckets
along the pavement -
Christmas trees untinselled
lean on the dustbins
furst day it schuil -
mithers
greitin
first day at school -
mothers
crying
Yule mornin -
treen ableeze wi sparks
sae perfitly space't
Christmas morning -
trees ablaze with raindrops
so perfectly spaced
2023 -
a new neb waukens
in shut-doon door-cheek
a new face wakens
in a closed-down doorway
