furst snawfaw
i the gairden
blate snawdraps




first snowfall
in the garden
shy snowdrops

granny's shoogler
heich on the cairt
...fluidwatter




grandmother's rocking-chair
high on the cart
...floodwater

the weet's devault  -
nakit brainches skimmer
wi new flourish




the rain's stopped  -
naked branches shimmer
with new blossom

his auld dug's deid  -
flaes
aye invade the hoose




his old dog's dead  -
fleas
still invade the house

beikin'r hauns
it the ingle
...poinsettia




warming her hands
at the fireside
...poinsettia

the blin laddie  -
fowerty-year on aye
findin the truist in's haun



the blind boy  -
forty-years on still
feeling the trust in his hand

onding  -
ilk day the burn
fuspers a pickle looder





downpour  -
each day the stream
whispers a little louder

UNCOS: weir! weir!  -
ootby
a bleckie brustin wi sang




NEWS: war! war!  -
outside
a blackbird bursting with song

a michtie megiphone  -
snochers
frae the tub




a mighty megaphone  -
snores
from the bath

hogmanay bangers  -
in thair new hame refugee
bairns wauken skirlin




new year fireworks  -
in their new  home refugee
children waken screaming

wunter blowster  -
on nakit brainches
speuggies' rodeo




winter storm  -
on naked branches
sparrows' rodeo

fegs!
the wrang kirkyaird
...craws gairdin the yetts




oops!
the wrong cemetery
...crows guarding the gates

Yule fluidin  -
an unnerwatter
shooglin-cuddie




Christmas  flooding  -
an underwater
rocking-horse

Yule e'en  -
neist tae the crib
blawort brustin intae life




Christmas eve  -
next to the crib hyacinths
bursting into life

trystin wi an auld fere  -
the monie gaps
in's gams




meeting an old friend  -
the many gaps
in his teeth

cluds bairge
crecks kythe
...lichtnin




clouds collide
cracks appear
...lightning

crematorium  -
hungert craws
roond the lum




crematorium  -
hungry crows
round the chimney

i the nursery gairden
they stoor'n tummle
...skwurrels




in the nursery garden
they race and tumble
...squirrels

coffee  -
oam sweels'n shoogles
...sambas o Brazil




coffee  -
steam swirls and shakes
...sambas of Brazil

transmugrifee'd  -
her umberellae
tae a siller attercap




metamorphosed  -
her umbrella
to a silver spider