wunnerfou burdsang  -

file the kailwirm

plays the box

wonderful birdsong  -

while the caterpillar

plays the accordion 

the pace

o hern's

meditation camp

the peace

of heron's 

meditation retreat

efter the weet

dreeps

...bedside monitor

after the rain

drips

...bedside monitor

tod doverin agane

mid his sipper

...chookie fedders

fox asleep again

midst his supper

...chicken feathers

 duntin nebs

 bummer an me  -

snowkin the buddleia

bumping noses

bee and I  -

smelling the buddleia

frae a mait o nettles

this wunner:

paycock butterie

from a diet of nettles

this wonder:

peacock butterfly

creepin jenny

apen mou'd  -

cabbitch fites flee oot

bindweed

open mouthed  -

cabbage whites fly out

unner a leafy umberellae

a bleckie

croonin i the weet

under a leafy umbrella

a blackbird

singing in the rain

fedders flee up

frae the tod's bourie

...a maw chick whae nivver flew

feathers fly up

from the fox's den

...a gull chick who never flew

fund: his penny fussle  -

anither hidie-hole

airtit oot

found: his penny whistle  -

another hiding place

discovered

treen 

heeld an rax oot  -

wund wrocht

tress

lean and reach out  -

wind shaped

In'r winnock

the crippilt wifie waffs  -

maks ma day!

in her window

the handicapped lady waves  -

makes my day!

granfaither scutchin's hedge

snecks the cable

...yin bricht speak!

grandfather trimming his hedge

cuts the cable

...one bright spark!

the confessional

deep i the brae

...they cum oot intae the licht

the confessional

deep in the hillside

...they come out into the light

(Knock shrine)

 i the mornin sin

the tods cum

...oh tae see wull theengs daffin!

in the morning sun

the foxes come

...oh to see wild things playing!

fire-alairm

it the en

o the priest's homily

fire-alarm

at the end

of the priest's homily

i the cloister gairden

the tortie

prees's furst aipple

in the cloister garden

the tortoise

tastes his first apple