fush-cadger's tooter

cryin in

...fush frae the sea

fishmonger's horn

summoning

...fish from the sea

amang jenny nettles

a hodden flooer  -

its reidness is its blateness

among nettles

a hidden flower  -

its redness is its shyness

troot lowps

in an oot o the burn

...siller steeks

trout leaps

in and out of the stream

...silver stitches

doitit he liggs on clints

waasht up  -  the yin on the brae

skairs's pyne

demented he lies on rocks

washed up  -  the one on the hill

shares his pain

(Peter howson's judas)

ristin on an ashet

flet peaches  -

thair sax bare erses

resting on a plate

flat peaches  -

their six bare bottoms

ettlin tae fit

key tae lock  -

the bodach's trummlin haun

trying to fit

key to lock  -

the old man's trembling hand

heavin up

frae the lum-heid

a coomy craw

rising

from the chimney-pot

a sooty crow

speuggie keeks

throuch the wisteria

...his purpie dreidlocks

sparrow peeps

through the wisteria

...his purple dreadlocks

pop-concert  -

alang the wey,

gairden wa's broukit wi pish

pop-concert  -

en-route, garden walls

stained with urine

waddin day  -

cleidit brawly in fite

the haw-tree

wedding day  -

dressed in glorious white

the hawthorn

 schuil Mass

...ah hearken

tae the rowin thunner

school Mass

...I hear

the rolling thunder

yestreen's pear flourish

flutherin doon  -

fite-heidit granbairns

yesterday's pear blossom

fluttering down  -

white-headed grandchildren

a patch 

o pish-the-beds  -

sum sins sum muins

a patch 

of dandelions  -

some suns some moons

sodger's gairden  -

pish-the-bed puff-baws

...caunles fir the deid

soldier's garden  -

dandelion puff-balls

...candles for the dead

coronation day -

abuin the burn

a crans' carnival

coronation day  -

above the stream

a swifts' carnival

i the busses

a mistaen flourish:

chaffie

in the bushes

a mistaken blossom:

chaffinch

in an oot

o the auld postbox:

blue-bonnets

in and out

of the old postbox:

blue-tits

ristin bi the waaterside

unner

a blae sauch-paittrened lift

resting by the riverside

under

a blue willow-patterned sky

pear flourish  -

...an yon tig o reid

on the petals' lips

pear blossom  -

...and that touch of red

on the petals' lips

airlie mornin -

the blinterin licht

o the eesock's breist

early morning  -

the flickering light

of the dippers breast