heavin up
frae the lum-heid
a coomy craw
rising
from the chimney-pot
a sooty crow
speuggie keeks
throuch the wisteria
...his purpie dreidlocks
sparrow peeps
through the wisteria
...his purple dreadlocks
pop-concert -
alang the wey,
gairden wa's broukit wi pish
en-route, garden walls
stained with urine
waddin day -
cleidit brawly in fite
the haw-tree
wedding day -
dressed in glorious white
the hawthorn
schuil Mass
...ah hearken
tae the rowin thunner
school Mass
...I hear
the rolling thunder
yestreen's pear flourish
flutherin doon -
fite-heidit granbairns
yesterday's pear blossom
fluttering down -
white-headed grandchildren
a patch
o pish-the-beds -
sum sins sum muins
of dandelions -
some suns some moons
sodger's gairden -
pish-the-bed puff-baws
...caunles fir the deid
soldier's garden -
dandelion puff-balls
...candles for the dead
coronation day -
abuin the burn
a crans' carnival
above the stream
a swifts' carnival
