scriever's clag  -
ma laddie gifts me a pen
...this yin




writer's block  -
my son gifts me a pen
...this one

thae wunter mornins
...apenin
yin ee




these winter mornings
...opening
one eye

a dauncin butterie
heizin
frae the fooneral wreath




a dancing butterfly
rising
from the funeral wreath

it the bus-stap:
a pish-the-bed seed baw
bides fir a souch




at the bus-stop:
a dandelion seed ball
waits for a breeze

takkin thayr photy  -
the daffins
skew tae leuk




photographing them  -
the daffodils
turn to look

restin...
the bodach
heelds agin the wund




resting...
the old man
leans against the wind

craw danders ahint
eemitatin
the bodach's hirple




crow walks behind
imitating
the old man's limp

voar  -
awgates
the meestery unfauldin




spring  -
everywhere
the mystery unfolding

gean flourish
...haudin
oor braith




cherry blossom
...holding
our breath

the bodach
learnin
tae dander




the old man
learning
to walk slowly

licht
o a hyne awa daffin
...keek o day




light
of a distant daffodil
...sunrise

up tae'r elbuck
in a wattergaw
she kittles the koi




up to her elbow
in a rainbow
she tickles the koi

St Paddy's day
doon wi the flu  - leastwise
 the watter's in a Guiness gless




St Patrick's day
down with the flu  -  at least
the water's in a Guiness glass

i the derk lift
sternbrusts...
nicht-shift walders




in the dark sky
starbursts...
night-shift welders

bodachs
daffin it the banes  -
knackin the day awa




old men
playing dominoes  -
clicking the day away

clachan tempel  -
fruit left fir the monks
fush banes fir bawdrons




village temple  -
fruit left for the monks
fish bones for cat

suddent stound -
ma laddie's photy
o an auld bodach




sudden shock  -
my son's photograph
of an old man

Buddha's gairden  -
fasht thochts caulmed
...koi




Buddha's garden  -
troubled thoughts calmed
...koi

frae stug
tae stug
the sin wins in tae the wuid




from stump
to stump
the sun enters the forest

throuch sweyin treen
spires o the college
...unyeldin




throu swaying trees
spires of the college
...unyielding