gairden pairty  -

throuch the scrogs

straeberries' reid een

garden party  -

through the undergrowth

strawberries' red eyes

years bygaun

the bairns' photy

slawly dwinin

years passing

the childrens' photograph

slowly fading

roastin day  -

amang oor sheddaes

a droopin yin

hot day  -

among our shadows

a drooping one

the quate burn

meets wi the clints

...threeps

the silent stream

meets the rocks

...utters

the orchid's heid

faws

...flutherin butterie

the orchids's head

falls

...fluttering butterfly

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