ma freen's dug
taigils me in'ts leash -
voar jig...fir threy




my friend's dog
tangles me in its lead -
spring jig...for three

abuin the deid daffins
aipple-flourish -
on an on...wizzen's sets




above the dead daffodils
apple-blossom -
on and on...life's shapes

on the lown watter
swan's sheddae-shaw:
a swan preenin




on the still water
swan's shadow-show:
a swan preening

gean flourish
shours doon -
mensefu clappin frae the cress




cherry blossom
showers down -
polite applause from the crease



(cricket match)

in the burn's blinter
hern's
lang sheddae




in the stream's glitter
heron's
long shadow

the tottie reenges -
his buggy
fouin wi gean flourish




the toddler explores -
his push-chair
filling with cherry blossom

voar wund
mither an dochter
taigilt in ilk ither's herr




spring wind
mother and daughter
tangled in each other's hair

gean flourish
fleets on the burn
...plowp o a troot




cherry blossom
floats on the stream
...plop of a trout

gean flourishins
thair dowie nebs
runklin




cherry blossoms
their sad faces
wrinkling

finin the temple
we cast aff oor shuin
sit wi holiepied fitties




finding the temple
we remove our shoes
sit with holes in our socks

a tirl souchs
athort the perks -
geanflourish-drifts




a breeze sighs
across the fields -
cherryblossom-drifts

the beadle
a blithefou chiel -
tuim biddy bottles




the gravedigger
a happy man -
empty wine bottles

gean flourish
the bummer quats
...stoiterin




cherry blossom
the bee leaves
...unsteadily

craw stauns
govein intae the girse
...ah, haiku wark!




crow stands
staring into the grass
...ah, haiku business!

sumyin's thochts
snorlt
in a bumt wrapper




someone's thoughts
knotted
in a thrown-away wrapper

bodach at's winnock
the saisons brichten
an derken's neb




old man at his window
the seasons brighten
and darken his face

a sotter -
craw stammers
on the riggin-heid




bad workmanship -
crow trips
on the roof-ridge

swan liggs
pirlt in a dover -
lown mids o the burn




swan lies
coiled in sleep -
still centre of the stream

bawdrons skooks -
deuklins soom in sweels
...thair clockwark trams




cat skulks -
ducklings swim in circles
...their clockwork legs

doon an arbour
o gean treen
craw dauners...growein sma'er




down an arbour
of cherry trees
crow strolls...growing smaller