on the plainstanes
a doo's egg - washt oot
claen's a fou muin




on the pavement
a pigeon's egg - washed out,
clean as a full moon

the mull's
lanely watter-wheel -
the drouthie burn




the mill's
lonely water-wheel -
the dried-up stream

gean tree:
anely yestreen
flourish freithin ower




cherry tree:
only yesterday
blossom frothing over

keelies stane the deuks -
in the shallas
watter sclims hern's trams




vandals stone the ducks -
in the shallows
water climbs heron's legs

aneath
the sin's glister
the derk burn




beneath
the sun's glitter
the dark stream

threy deuks
anely threy deuks
runklin the hail burn




three ducks
only three ducks
wrinkling the whole stream

chynge i the wedder
burd-bath
slawly fouin




change in the weather
bird-bath
slowly filling

hinmaist licht
on the brae
rap flourish




last light
on the hillside
rape blossom

at Jesus' feet
a vause o roses
...yin petal hings on a breer




at Jesus' feet
a vase of roses
...one petal hangs on a thorn

auncient aiks
a baiten peth
...breidth o a deuk




ancient oaks
a beaten path
...width of a duck

rin-ower craw:
bleck weengs
streekin oot o sicht




run-over crow:
black wings
stretching out of sight

atween clematis leaves
the crottilt warl
o the lameter wifie




between clematis leaves
the fragmented world
of the crippled lady

sin muves athort
snaggit in a moose wab
a sheddae




sun moves across
caught in a spider's web
a shadow

birlin
gliffin oot a leam -
coke-tinnie on the burn




turning
flashing out a beam -
coke-can on the stream

sin progs
doon throuch the leaves -
the pyotie burn rins




sun pierces
down through the leaves -
the piebald stream runs

fernyear's leaf
thrawin a sheddae
o kittlie tracery




last year's leaf
casting a shadow
of delicate tracery

in siccan
unchancy warl
speuggie's spurtle-legs




in such
a dangerous world
sparrow's thin legs

lown watter
fleitin
frae clud tae clud




peaceful stream
streaming
from cloud to cloud

scufflin:
the cailleach's knockles
...bowders fiten i the burn




hoeing:
the old lady's knuckles
...rocks whiten in the stream

mey day
anarchists daunce -
sin on polis steeks




may day
anarchists dance -
sun on police batons