galilee
maws skirlin  -
samen leid as it hame




galilee
gulls screaming  -
same language as at home

i the wee-oors
attercap
a'ready weavin




early morning
spider
already knitting

Yule e'en  -
a fou muin
lichts up the byre




Christmas eve  -
a full moon
lights up the cowshed

whit wye
weet chafts it the station  -
life gaes naewhaur




why
tears at the station  -
life goes nowhere

his team beat...agane   -
myndins
fouin the bucket




his team beaten...again  -
memorabilia
filling the dustbin

sin snaw or weet
wullie wagtail
never no waffin's bunt




sun snow or rain
wagtail never not
wagging his tail

keek-o-day  -
the lift reiddens
blearin the Yule lichts




dawn  -
the sky reddens
dimming the Christmas lights

hunkert roon the ingle
thay'r tentie o the dramas
i the lowes




sitting round the fire
they watch the dramas
in the flames

Yule  -
i the  winnock
tree's stoundin hert




Christmas  -
in the window
tree's pulsing heart

sclimin fawin
sclimin fawin  -
wunter flee reengin fir feres




climbing falling
climbing falling  -
winter fly searching for friends

hematuria  -
a stap ower
a singul rodden berry




hematuria  -
I step over
a single rowan berry

freesty plainstanes  -
hairst leaves
set in a scrapbuik




icy pavements  -
autumn leaves
fixed in a scrapbook

this mornin sic sheenin  -
muin, venus,
an bawdrons' fuskers




this morning such shining  -
moon, venus,
and cat's whiskers

alzheimer's  -
on a seelent sea
her boattie adrift




alzheimer's  -
on a silent sea
her boat adrift

retourin
her leebrary beuks  -
a pokefou o crangs




returning
her library books  -
a bagful of corpses

armistice  -
a bullet-tasht helm
...soond o a moothie




armistice -
a bullet-holed helmet
...sound of a harmonica

scartin the caur winnock  -
speuggie stobs
it a jeelt dub




scraping the car window  -
sparrow stabs
at a frozen puddle

votin day  -
ootby the pairlament
a joogler




voting day  -
outside the parliament
a juggler

hou sunken trock
maks eemages on the burn
(alang cam jung!)




how sunken debris
makes images on the stream
(along came jung!)

auld schuil dictionar  -
its pages turnt doon it
minge an mons




old school dictionary  -
its pages turned down at
minge and mons