abuin the spire
the sin
...sinflooer




above the spire
the sun
...sunflower

geeglin frae
the gairden pairty  -  bummers
ligg stappit wi nectar




giggling
from the garden party  -
bees lie sated with nectar

flichterin
in'r glesses
pages o a thriller




flickering
in her glasses
pages of a thriller

the bodach  -
his dug
daunerin'm




the old man  -
his dog
walking him

maisic rant
weet
ruffin on the tent




music festival
rain
drumming on the tent

yella gowans
lip-fou
o sinlicht




buttercups
brimming
with sunlight

nebs tae the sin  -
faither mither bairns
gowans




faces to the sun  -
father mother children
daisies

sheddae o's dreepin stug  -
hern bydin
fir the cygnets




shadow of his dripping spike  -
heron waiting
for the cygnets

chyngin o the gaird
a ballet
in reid




changing of the guard
a ballet
in red

i the gairden
the bleckie dillin
the bodach's lanesomeness




in the garden
the blackbird soothing
the old man's loneliness

efter the yowe-trummle  -
the braes
fou o mean ghaists




after the sheep-shearing  -
the hills
full of angular ghosts

weirin neebors  -
throuch the palin a rose
offerin itsel




warring neighbours  -
through the fence a rose
offering itself

yokit on bi a gang
o speuggies  -  maggie
draps a fite fedder




mugged by a gang
of sparrows  -  magpie
drops a white feather

Voar ferr  -
crans
ding-dangin




Spring fair  -
swifts
helter-skeltering

ahint the graffitied waa:
the kirk's lown 
unscufft...unscuffable




behind the graffitied wall:
the church's silence 
untouched...untouchable

tick tock...
the bombed bairn
pendles on's stilts




tick tock...
the bombed child
pendulums on his crutches

monks
cleedit in fite
pensefu caunles




monks
robed in white
wistful candles

amang the bleck swans
yin fite yin 
muin an cluds




among the black swans
one white one 
moon and clouds

day-daw cushat,
eenin bleckie  -  an atween:
The Magnificat




dawn wood-pigeon,
evening blackbird  -  and between:
The Magnificat


(Clare priory pilgrimage)

maw  -
the fite kinches
o's cantrips




gull  -
the white loops
of his antics