Friday, January 31, 2014

a fitbaw...
an sodgers an bairns
are yin




a football...
and soldiers and children
are one

Thursday, January 30, 2014

snell -
maggies'
chitterin claiver




bitter cold -
magpies'
chittering chatter

Monday, January 27, 2014

in a cage
o scabbit brainches
a tweedlin burd




in a cage
of leafless branches
a singing bird


(holocaust day)

Friday, January 24, 2014

voar bulbs
boo tae the licht
...bleckies tae




spring bulbs
bend to the light
...blackbirds too

Sunday, January 19, 2014

on the strand
daw-pentit
chuckies




on the shore
dawn-painted
pebbles

Thursday, January 16, 2014

a murther
craws
gaitherin




a murder
crows
gathering

Wednesday, January 15, 2014

radgie
saw nebs
...hern leuks conflummixt




randy
goosanders
...heron looks shocked

Thursday, January 09, 2014

circus saison -
reid rab
peerie lowe-chower




circus season -
the robin
little fire-eater

Saturday, January 04, 2014

hungert bairn
liggs in'r lap
...derk concerteeny




starving child
lies in her lap
...dark concertina
hern an me -
oor harns
collin ilk ither




heron and I -
our brains
shaping each other




Friday, January 03, 2014

midden stramash -
maws, fite spatrils
craws, bleck




rubbish-tip cacophony -
gulls, white notes
crows, black

Thursday, January 02, 2014

nuns gairdnin -
flooers
drookit in lauchter




nuns gardening -
flowers
drenched in laughter
anither towmond -
weir skaiths
aye dreepin




a new year -
war wounds
still dripping

Wednesday, January 01, 2014

in a bombed kirk
a bairn
...skailt chalice




in a bombed church
a child
...spilt chalice

Saturday, December 28, 2013

TROKE DAY -
an airlie bang up
fir the hameless chiel




SALES DAY -
an early rise
for the homeless man
burn in spate -
deuks jookin
aneath the brig




flooded stream -
ducks ducking
beneath the bridge

Friday, December 27, 2013

yule carols
droont oot:
ferris wheelers' skirls




Christmas carols
drowned out:
ferris wheelers' screams

Wednesday, December 25, 2013

Yule EEN -
the hostel
fou o yin-time santas




Christmas Eve -
the hostel
full of one-time santas




Friday, December 20, 2013

fou muin -
skeetchers sloom
in tranquility




full moon -
skaters glide
in tranquility

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

nippie hailstanes -
the guitarist's
blae fingers




stinging hailstones -
the guitarist's
blue fingers