nicht soonds
fauldit inby
the auld saxyphone




night sounds
at rest inside
the old saxophone

weet bates
on the leaves
hairst rags




rain beats
on the leaves
autumn rags

bag-wifie
orrals o drames
powkin throuch




bag-lady
bits of dreams
poking through

stuckies
reestin
the day's blethers




starlings
roosting
the day's gossip

scuil hoalidays -
granfaither an me
pishin aneath the muin




school holidays -
grandfather and I
pissing beneath the moon

peat lowe -
we hunker, threy glowein nebs
goavin at a fowert




peat fire -
we sit, three glowing faces
gazing at a fourth

deid on the kirk steps
a maggie...
braw in's vestments




dead on the church steps
a magpie...
fine in his vestments

readin Issa...
hunkerin
in a sinblink




reading Issa...
sitting
in a sunbeam

hallowday -
fleggin the postie:
a left-ower bogle




All Saints' day -
frightening the postman:
a left-over ghost

throuch the maple wuid
the lang reid peth
o hairst




through the maple wood
the long red path
of autumn

potter's hauns
wrochtin the tuimness
o's blae joogs




potter's hands
shaping the emptiness
of his blue jugs

lichtin up the scullery:
the pumpkin
bydein a neb




lighting up the kitchen:
the pumpkin
awaiting a face

fleedit causey -
throuch's hoose
reid maple leaves fleit




flooded street -
through his house
red maple leaves float

frae the brig:
clud sets
wrocht o watter




from the bridge:
cloud shapes
made of water

furst freest -
i the sin tentie
o the auld tree souchin




first frost -
in the sun watching
the old tree breathe

thunner
lichtnin
leaves ruffin




thunder
lightning
leaves applauding

mornin wirds -
the monastery bawdrons
gants




morning prayers -
the monastery cat
yawns

aff tae weir -
laggin hait
in's mither's rosary




off to war -
lingering heat
in his mother's rosary

peerie spule
back an fore
gien o'ts sel: attercap




tiny shuttle
back and forth
giving of itself: spider

amang the puppies
a furst reid rab
...a jalouse




among the poppies
a frst robin
...I think