tenor sax
booin's braith
aroon the blues




tenor sax
bending his breath
around the blues

dementia
tentie o the butterie
...skeerie lik




dementia
he watches the butterfly
...fearfully

snell wund -
gean flourish
eemitatin snaw




bitter wind -
cherry blossom
imitating snow

the puppie's
hert
o derkness




the poppy's
heart
of darkness

bleckie
fins a clint:
drum o snail's daith




blackbird
finds a rock:
drum of snail's death

licht throuch
the tuim gin bottle
his green neb




light through
the empty gin bottle
his green face

smusht egg -
yin sang less
i the daydaw owercome




smashed egg -
one song less
in the dawn chorus

voar ferr -
pipes seelent
weet paradeedles




spring fair -
bagpipes silent
rain paradiddles

skailt flourish
tore up
luve scrieves




scattered blossom
torn up
love letters

treens'
teeger strips
on the lammer burn




trees'
tiger stripes
on the amber stream

daffin
wi snail -
spleuterin fir'm




playing
with snail -
raining for him

furst communicants
swurlin
gean flourish




first communicants
swirling
cherry blossom

licht throuch
the kirk winnock -
her skire tae-nails




light through
the church window -
her coloured toe-nails

tirl...
the raing
o daffins




breeze...
the ring
of daffodils

i the sheddae
o swans:
Medusa heidit




in the shadow
of swans:
Medusa headed

ma bluid
fouin the hypo -
reid-rab at the winnock




my blood
filling the hypo -
a robin at the window

voar -
bleckie's baird
o strae




spring -
blackbird's beard
of straw

his ain
peerie stour -
tod amang the chookies




his own
little snowstorm -
fox among the chickens

quate-lik muin
corsin the burn
...doverin fush




stealthy moon
crossing the stream
...sleeping fish

seeven skire airches
striddlin:
wattergaw




seven coloured arches
striding:
rainbow

(after Andy Goldsworthy)