airlie mornin
rooster
...fairmyaird blues




early morning
cockerel
...farmyard blues

'the glorifeed twalt'  -
burds cross the lift
...fawin no fleein




'The glorious twelfth'  -
birds cross the sky
...falling not flying

roon the vause
faw'n petals
...colour o'r goonie




round the vase
fallen petals
...colour of her nightdress

the scholars
in bricht uniforms  -
the deuks in thayrs




the school children
in bright uniforms  -
the ducks in theirs

maw skirls
fleggin the speuggies
...terrorist!




gull screams
frightening the sparrows
...terrorist!

treen rax fir the sin  -
aw bit
narcissistic sauch




trees stretch for the sun  -
all but
narcissistic willow

fleein in a straucht line  -
butterie
in a stour





flying in a straight line  -
butterfly
in a hurry

bummers'n bairns  -
hou we lued
rid sookie




bees and children  -
how we loved
sucking red clover

bummer
struislin hame
wi secks o gowd




bee
struggling home
with sacks of gold

aumond flourish fawin  -
they rake fir't
in granfaither's herr




almond blossom falling  -
they search for it
in grandfather's hair

sweein
on the waashin rope
...a souch




swinging
on the washing line
...a breeze

whitsunday  -
poinsettia's
lowin tungs




Pentecost  -
poinsettia's
tongues of fire

flooer shaw jeedges  -
bummer
taks a close leuk




flower show judges  -
bee
takes a closer look

lair
o the makar
...schaird o peasie whin




grave
of the poet
...shard of granite

faur awa bomb blooter  -
here
a wab thirles




distant bomb blast  -
here
a web quivers

the bairn
skailin crisps
...follaed bi twa craws




the little boy
dropping crisps
...followed by two crows

dentist's chaumer  -
the cannie girn
o a fankilt flee




dentist's surgery  -
the steady whine
of a trapped fly

sneddin roses  -
fuchsia buds
....dreeps o bluid




pruning roses  -
fuchsia buds
...drips of blood

i the gairden:
gowans
constellations




in the garden:
daisies
constellations

a simmer mornin
egglin me
tae cleid it




a summer morning
urging me
to clothe it