festival  squeebs  -

Immigrant bairnies

coorie thegither

festival  fireworks  -

immigrant  toddlers

cling together

waashin day  -

flaffin sheets

a bygaun butterie

washing day  -

flapping sheets

a passing butterfly

on the telegraph weer

a line o speuggies

yatterin

on the telegraph wire

a line of sparrows

chattering

as tho unnerwatter

they pander by the winnock  -

pish-the-bed parychutes

as though underwater

they drift past the window  -

dandelion parachutes

voar  -

delvin agane

lik monie makars afore

spring  -

digging again

like many poets before

ootby

the hospital yetts

dowps

outside 

the hospital gates

cigarette-ends

honesty

shooglin i the wund

...bangles an bracelets

honesty

shaking in the wind

...bangles and bracelets

rouky mornin  -

bi the kirk yett

attercap's spreit catcher

misty morning  -

by the church gate

spider's spirit catcher

on a lown puil

suddentlie sumhin

dings a bul's-ee

on a calm pool

suddenly something

hits a  bull's eye

it lang an last

weet  -

the acer's leaves daunce

at last

rain  -

the acer's leaves dance

a lown tirl

jooglin

sax fite butteries

a gentle breeze

juggling

six white butterflies

heid office  -

goavin doon on tovin maws

an peerie fowk

head office  -

gazing down on soaring gulls

and little people

swelterin wedder  -

the coos an me

fliskin flees 

sweltering weather  -

the cows and I

flicking flies 

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craw hunkers wi me

streetches an skews's craig

as though ettlin tae threep

crow sits with me

stretches and twists his neck

as though trying to speak

thrissel's purpie  -

ower suin

the fitest o bairds

thistles purple  -

too soon

the whitest of beards

wund gurlin

roon ma lugs:

'sumhin tae smush!...oniethin!'

wind growling

round my ears:

'something to smash!...anything!'

bodachs nou

we simmer an wunter

ower oor medications

old men now

we discuss at length

oor medications

bricht sinlicht  -

a mistaen jowel

...maukie flees on dug keech

bright sunlight  -

a mistaken jewel

...bluebottles on dog-shit

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neb tae neb  -

dug an puddock

ettlin tae unnerstaun 

nose to nose  -

dog and frog

trying to understand

pensioner  -

her message bag

blaws awa i the wund

pensioner  -

her shopping bag

blows away in the wind