kail-wirm  -
on a kail leaf
grand crochet wark




caterpillar  -
on a cabbage leaf
excellent crochet work

auld toon squerr  -
a generation hunkert
aneath cluds o fag reek




old town square  -
a generation sitting
beneath clouds of cigarette smoke

maw  -
fechtin the schuil-laddie
fir's piece




gull  -
fighting the schoolboy
for his lunch

deuks in a raw  -
myndin
mither's scullery wa




ducks in a row  -
remembering
mother's kitchen wall

idle  -
ilka day bygane
the sunken boattie




unemployed  -
every day passing
the sunken boat

anither burthday  -
slawly sauntin
on her new scooter




another birthday  -
slowly disappearing
on her new scooter

haar's cantraips:
attercap's ghaistly warl
hauds forrit




magical mist:
spider's ghostly world
steps forward

a hunner the day  -
in'r gairden
a gledsome fleeby




a hundred today  -
in her garden
a joyous flypast

neist
tae'r drame cleeker
attercap's wab




beside
her dream catcher
spider's web

danderin aside's wheelcheer
she cairrys's tram
...pynts trigly bund




walking beside his wheelchair
she carries his leg
...laces neatly tied

heich on the err:
butteries, thrissledoon
...whilk?




high on the air:
butterflies, thistledown
...which?

a reid admiral's
juist drapt bye
...winkin on a clint




a red admiral's
just dropped in
...winking on a rock

tod's left
a bing o bleck fedders
...the sang is gane




fox has left
a pile of black feathers
...the song is gone

the workie's cran
flings its widdie sheddae
ower the daffin perks




the builder's crane
casts its gallows shadow
over the playing fields

on a lanely peth
snowkin a wull rose
...bummer shoves in




on a lonely path
smelling a wild rose
...bee pushes in
.

the Buddha's hauns
fouin wi weet
...peerie burds sowpin




the Buddha's hands
filling with rain
...little birds drinking

doverin in'r lair  -
ma heid ristin
whaur the tooth-fairy hunkert




sleeping in her bed  -
my head resting
where the tooth-fairy sat

aw day
pouin berries
tae the bummers' wark sang




all day
picking fruit
to the bees' work song

drocht  -
saumon duntin
intae clints




drought  -
salmon bumping
into rocks

weetin'sel
the drouthie
flings miscawins it the Mosque




wetting himself
the drunk
flings abuse at the Mosque