zen speug
Thursday, February 19, 2015
voar sinsheen
the maple's brainches skimmer -
auld banes wairmin
spring sunshine
the maple's branches glitter -
old bones warming
Sunday, February 15, 2015
her peerie mappie
sclims the wa -
babbie's fingers i the sin
her little rabbit
climbs the wall -
baby's fingers in the sun
Thursday, February 12, 2015
sin-worshippers'
weir-daunce
...midges
sun-worshippers'
war-dance
...midges
Wednesday, February 11, 2015
furrin lassie
her suddron puir...
lip-reengs,tung-studs
foreign girl
her english poor...
lip-rings,tongue-studs
Saturday, February 07, 2015
throuch the kirkyaird's
wutherins
a reid spat o life...rab
through the churchyard's
witherings
a red spot of life...robin
Thursday, February 05, 2015
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
Wednesday, February 04, 2015
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
Friday, January 30, 2015
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
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
auschwitz day -
caunles...
puils o tallie
auschwitz day -
candles...
pools of tallow
Sunday, January 25, 2015
piece time -
amang the dorbie's graith
Reid Rab
lunch time -
amongst the mason's tools
a robin
Thursday, January 22, 2015
hern yirthin
untaiglin frae the
parrychute o's sel
heron landing
untangling from the
parachute of himsel
Monday, January 19, 2015
i the lairside vause
anely
flooers o freest
in the graveside vase
only
flowers of frost
Saturday, January 17, 2015
fower rinners
stour fir the line
...attercap's trams threshin
four runners
race for the line
...spider's legs thrashing
Friday, January 16, 2015
muin i the winnock -
the bairn groozles
balancin't on'r tae
moon in the window -
the baby gurgles
balancing it on her toe
Sunday, January 04, 2015
on the fitpad
a gowdfush -
gawpin at it aw
on the footpath
a goldfish -
open-mouthed at it all
Saturday, January 03, 2015
haingles blues -
stertin tae laith
the cuckoo-clock
flu blues -
starting to hate
the cuckoo-clock
Saturday, December 27, 2014
boxing day -
a disjaskit teddy-bear
quat on a perk bink
boxing day -
a forlorn teddy-bear
left on a park bench
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Yule gifts
in a bing -
he daffs wi the happins
Christmas gifts
piled high -
he plays with the wrappings
Saturday, December 20, 2014
abuin
the suicide's hoose
a skirlin maw
above
the suicide's house
a keening gull
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