voar sinsheen

the maple's brainches skimmer  -

auld banes wairmin

spring sunshine

the maple's branches glitter  -

old bones warming

her peerie mappie

sclims the wa  -

babbie's fingers i the sin

her little rabbit

climbs the wall  -

baby's fingers in the sun

sin-worshippers'
weir-daunce
...midges




sun-worshippers'
war-dance
...midges

furrin lassie
her suddron puir...
lip-reengs,tung-studs




foreign girl
her english poor...
lip-rings,tongue-studs

throuch the kirkyaird's
wutherins
a reid spat o life...rab




through the churchyard's
witherings
a red spot of life...robin

fykie bairn
ye hae nivver seen
hungert een
or bouks licht as licht




fussy child
you've never seen
hungry eyes
or bodies light as light

the cailleach's
poke o crottles pluffs
intae a stramash o maws




the old lady's
bag of crumbs explodes
into a chaos of gulls

butterie
yin flutherin
page...




butterfly
one fluttering
page...

fir aw oor genocide
life aye forgies us
...snawdraps




for all our genocide
life still forgives us
...snowdrops

auschwitz day  -
caunles...
puils o tallie




auschwitz day  -
candles...
pools of tallow

piece time  -
amang the dorbie's graith
Reid Rab




lunch time  -
amongst the mason's tools
a robin

hern yirthin
untaiglin frae the
parrychute o's sel




heron landing
untangling from the
parachute of himsel

 i the lairside vause
anely
flooers o freest




in the graveside vase
only
flowers of frost

fower rinners
stour fir the line
...attercap's  trams threshin




four runners
race for the line
...spider's legs thrashing

muin i the winnock  -
the bairn groozles
balancin't on'r tae




moon in the window  -
the baby gurgles
balancing it on her toe

on the fitpad
a gowdfush  -
gawpin at it aw




on the footpath
a goldfish  -
open-mouthed at it all

haingles blues   -
stertin tae laith
the cuckoo-clock




flu blues  -
starting to hate
the cuckoo-clock

boxing day  -
a disjaskit teddy-bear
quat on a perk bink



boxing day  -
a forlorn teddy-bear
left on a park bench

Yule gifts
in a bing  -
he daffs wi the happins




Christmas gifts
piled high  -
he plays with the wrappings

abuin
the suicide's hoose
a skirlin maw




above
the suicide's house
a keening gull