ettlin tae richt his stotter

the bodach

danders alang a sunbeam

trying to right his stagger

the old man

walks along a sunbeam

cailleach

it her winnock

smirkin it the weet

old lady

at her window

smiling at the rain

troot lowp

cleekit

on instinct

trout leap

hooked

on instinct

craw aipples faw

rowe aw airts

...snookered fir jeely

crab apples fall

roll in all directions

...snookered for jelly

drouth  -

deuks stummle

ower a clinty claddach 

drought  -

ducks stumble

over a rocky riverbed

 the cailleach

feart o'r neebours

...wesps' byke

the old lady

afraid of her neighbours

...wasps' byke

rin -doon pairt o toon  -

e'en the rodden berries

ur stoorie

run-down part of town  -

even the rowan berries

are dusty

unner the gizzent leaves

the butterie hunkers 

in a tuim burd bath

under the shrivelled leaves

the butterfly sits

in an empty bird bath

haitwave  -

the bodach an the flooers

wultin

heatwave  -

the old man and the flowers

wilting

this year

the flooers stound

fir a bummer's pree

this year

the flowers ache

for a bee's kiss

craw hunkers wi me  -

a fusper tae'm

whiles he nid-nods

crow sits with me  -

I whisper to him

sometimes he nods

Gaza  - whaur the warl 

daffs it jack straws

wi bairns' banes

Gaza  -  where the world

plays Jack straws

with chldrens' bones

blithe rackets  -

the bodach dwams o hame

...whaur bombs faw

festive fireworks  -

the old man dreams of home

,..where bombs fall

hunkert

on her ain wee warl  

...butterie an aipple

sitting 

on her own little world

...butterfly and apple