caum
efter the onding  -
the gairden: muin's keekin-gless




calm
after the blizzard  -
the garden: moon's mirror

liggin i the fedder-linit
kist o'ts sel:
dung doon swan




lying in the feather-lined
coffin of itself:
shot swan

on the shunkie ruif
bawdrons an doo
easy-oasy i the sin




on the outhouse roof
cat and pigeon
lazy in the sun

throuch the tempel winnock
bairnheid lauchter  -
nae mantra mair muckle




through the temple window
childhood laughter  -
no greater mantra

snell wund  -
furst crocuses
comin ower blae




cold wind  -
first crocuses
turning blue

agane
the mornin bleckie  -
the muin taks a hinmaist peep




again
the morning blackbird  -
the moon takes a last peek

the bodach
maits the maws  -
craws glower...set apairt




the old man
feeds the gulls  -
crows watch...segregated

ahint the boatie
sheddae o a swallae
...cleekit




behind the boat
shadow of a swallow
...anchored

bard
on the heichest brainch:
bleckie  -  his ode tae voar




minstrel
on the highest branch:
blackbird  -  his ode to spring

sae cauld  -
e'en inby
daffins skew tae the ingle




so cold  -
even inside
daffodils turn to the fire

caller snaw  -
a rottan rins ower't
...sica grue




fresh snow  -
a rat runs over it
...such a shiver

a clud's
pit its derk fuit
i the burn




a cloud's
put its dark foot
in the stream

heizin
frae a snawy park:
a yowdendrift o maws




rising
from a snowy field:
a blizzard of gulls

voar  -
the luve bomb
redd




spring  -
the love bomb
primed

gloamin  -
i the lift the kinetic
airt o stuckies




sunset  -
in the sky the kinetic
art of starlings

dowie  -
the craw faimily
ettlin tae croon




sad  -
the crow family
trying to sing

day efter the yirdin  -
burds roon
the tuim brod




day after the funeral  -
birds round
the empty feeder

day o'r yirdin
snaw on the brainches
...syne gane




day of her funeral
snow on the branches
...then gone

myndin bygane Yules
she shoogles
the snaw globe...agane




remembering
Christmasses past she
shakes the snow globe...again

heelster-gowdie  -
efter the blowster
a tree staunin  on'ts brainches




topsy-turvy  -
after the storm
a tree standing on its branches