err thrabs

as swans win awa

...stoorin cluds

air throbs

as swans leave

...racing clouds

aince mair

Yule lowes i the herth

...poinsettia

again Christmas

flames in the hearth

...poinsettia.

friday clavers

roon the fush-van

...apen-mou'd mackrel

friday gossip

round the fish-van

...open-mouthed mackrel

anely hersel

an the Yule cactus  -

lanely covid blues

only herself

and the Christmas cactus  -

lonely covid blues

i the gairden

maggies line the palin  

...boogie--woogie pianny

in the garden

magpies line the fence  

...boogie-woogie piano

 pumpkin foondert

anely the caunle left

...tae licht anither

pumpkin slumped

only the candle left

...to light another

 aneath hairst treen

plainstanes buskit

in gowd leaf

beneath autumnal trees

pavements adorned

in gold leaf

 weet bates  -

leaves flettent atween pages

o yestreen an the day

rain beats  -

leaves flattened between pages

of yesterday and today

 broozilt gowan  -

petals ligg

...exclamation merks 

crushed daisy  -

petals lie

...exclamation marks 

 licht throuch

the hairst treen

...apenin her keel boax

light through

the autumnal trees

...opening her crayon box

yestreen a corp

the day swans' bonnieness

...the burn's calm souch

yesterday a corpse

today swans' elegance

...the stream's equanimity 

droont eemigrant

his wan fissog turnt

tae the muin o hame

drowned immigrant

his pale face turned 

to the moon of home

auld daunce studio  -

the wrackin-baw's sweeng

feshes the hoose doon

old dance studio  -

the wrecking-ball's swing

brings the house down

 pittin oot the buckets  -

a fou muin

...sae claen

putting out the bins  -

a full moon

...so clean

 watterside poorhoose  -

they gove it thirsels

ablow the watter

riverside hostel  -

they gaze at themselves

below the water

 daw sinblink

chirtin watter

frae the freestit leaves

dawn sunbeam

squeezing water

from the frosted leaves

 furst the ambulance

wins in  -  syne bawdrons

his bell tinglin

first the ambulance

arrives  -  then cat

his bell tinkling

 the bairns hairst

the maumie aipples

...thayr hattert nebs

the children harvest

the ripe apples

...their flustered faces.

 i the perk

craws tissle ower a berry

tentless o the ref's whustle 

in the park

crows tussle over a berry

heedless of the ref's whistle

virus apairtness  -
new peths
throuch the wuids



social distancing  -

new paths
through the woods