ablow
the gean tree
a pink-spreckelt craw




below
the cherry tree
a pink-speckled crow

lanely laddie  -
his threepins
carriet on the wund




lonely boy  -
his conversations
carried on the wind

on the burn  -
a traffic jam
o gean floorish




on the stream  -
a traffic jam
of cherry blossom

choir practeese
a smidgin aff-key  -
the blin lassie's dug leuks up




choir practice
a little off-key  -
the blind girl's dog looks up

voar tirl  -
gean flourish's
glamouris cairpet




spring breeze  -
cherry blossom's
magic carpet

graith an burds
skirlin  -
snowk o upturnt yirth




machines and birds
screeching  -
smell of upturned earth

babbie mappie  -
in's baggit een...
the warl




baby rabbit  -
in his bulging eyes...
the world

daffins
wizzent heids bou'd  -
anither voar sert




daffodils
shrunken heads bowed  -
another spring served

furst deuklins
zigzaggin  -
the runt's wud peddlin




first ducklings
zigzagging  -
the runt's frantic pedaling

peerie aipple tree
raxin tae beir  fruit  -
och! the makar's life




little apple tree
struggling to bear fruit  -
ah! the poet's life

hoose o the deid bairn  -
sumyin's left
a cheen o gowns




house of the dead child  -
someone's left
a daisy-chain

votin day  -
speuggies scash
it the burdbrod




election day  -
sparrows squabble
at the birdtable

sin
on the daffin perks  -
samen sin
on the perks o slauchter




sun
on the playing fields  -
same sun
on the killing fields

follaein snail's pad
maggie
cums deezie




following snail's trail
magpie
becomes dizzy

fou muin  -
aipple flourish
fite




full moon  -
apple blossom
white

snail's
siller runes  -
tells o muinlicht




snail's
silver runes  -
tales of moonlight

auld grewhoond
tentie o the mappies  -
his dowie een




old greyhound
watching the rabbits  -
his sad eyes

he feeds's fruit treen

bluid'n bane

...reid reid aipples

he feeds his fruit trees

blood and bone

...red red apples

hunkert it the door
o's hedge tenement  -
eenin speuggie




sitting at the door
of his hedge tenement  -
evening sparrow

tummlin
throuch the brainches  -
maggie the pierrot




tumbling
through the branches  -
magpie the pierrot