nems aye thair
on the tree  -
the hert swallin




initials still there
on the tree  -
the heart swelling

schuil sports-day  -
the swith o fuit
ootrinnin the weet




school sports-day  -
the fleet of foot
outrunning the rain

faither's day  -
yin hunkers on the plainstanes
weet fouin's Tassie




father's day  -
one sits on the pavement
rain filling his cup

bygaun the  winnock
a fou muin peeps in
...smirkin




passing the window
a full moon peers in
...smiling

slidderin athort
the ice-rink winnock  -
snail




sliding across
the ice-rink window  -
snail

happin'm in's
Kirstenin mantie
...cumulus cluds




wrapping him
in his Christening shawl
...cumulus clouds

juist anither fursday  -
weet stapt, burds chirmin,
a life-hauder turnt aff




just another thursday  -
rain stopped, birds singing,
a life-support switched off

oot frae a snawy perk
a hauflin
...baird trim




out from a snowy field
a youth
...beard trim

sic dafferie!
sic sport!
...bluid on the causey




such fun!
such sport!
...blood on the street


(Euro 2016)

ettlin tae cleek
the bairnie
...efter a butterie




trying to catch
the toddler
...chasing a butterfly

on the bink
a babbie's dummy  -
roon the bink fag-ens




on the bench
a baby's pacifier  -
round the bench cigarette-ends

mercat day
generations bairge  -
grandad's wheelchair, babbie's pram




market day
generations collide  -
grandad's wheelchair, baby's pram

the brewery lum's reek
sweys
druckenly




the brewery chimney's smoke
sways
drunkenly

the down's syndrome laddie
gaups
it the bodach's bool fit




the down's syndrome boy
stares
at the old man's club foot

a cailleach cried Mary
her bairn streekit on'r laup
...weir memorial




an old lady called Mary
her child stretched on her lap
...war memorial

haiku stravaig  -
the  suddent comma
o a deid moose's tail



ginko  -
the sudden comma
of a dead mouse's tail

they rair'n cheer
the militar err shaw  -
naebodie taks tent o the crans




they roar and cheer
the military air show  -
nobody notices the swifts

a raw o nursery bairns
geeglin
it a raw o deuklins




a line of nursery children
giggling
at a line of ducklings

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