mornin yatter  -

ma neebours clype

...maggies jyne in

morning chatter  -

my neighbours gossip

...magpies join in

dung doon ceeties  -

tuithit gavel-ens staun

...a deevil's jeegsaw

bombed cities  -

toothed gable-ends stand

...a devil's jigsaw

dawn chorus  -

the yatter

o the bucket men

dawn chorus  -

the chitchat

of the bin men

hairst  -

duddie leaves

hing on

autumn  -

tattered leaves

hang on

back agane

tae snowk the peat reek

...lowes thit nivver gae oot

back again

to smell the peat smoke

...fires that never go out

hameless  -

doverin aneath the heidline:

IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?

homeless  -

asleep beneath the headline:

IS THERE LIFE ON MARS?

sica bonnie lassie  -

her spirlie fingers

cleuks o a draigon tattoo

such a lovely girl  -

her slender fingers

claws of a dragon tattoo

deid man's bells

a ticht fit

...bummer backs oot slawly

foxglove

a tight fit

...bee reverses out slowly

arthritic:

his banes runchin

wrochtin thayr ain aises

arthritic:

his bones grinding

making their own ashes

unner the tree

a fawen egg  -

sumhin's sookit oot the sangburd

under the tree

a fallen egg  -

something's sucked out the songbird

obituary:

...a brush hus

skytit frae the cannas

obituary:

...a brush has

slipped from the canvas

sneddin ma herr

i the gairden

... haip o thrisseldoon 

cutting my hair

in the garden

...heap of thistledown

bydein the licht

sweelt i the hap o'ts sel  -

mornin glory

awaiting the light

wrapped in the blanket of itself  -

morning glory

 baurber shewn-up  -

deein o cancer

his thocht's ma herr!

barber closed  -

dying of cancer

his concern's my hair!

(For Sandy)

nIcht veesitors  -

the siller jeegsaw

o snail steids

night visitors  -

the silver jigsaw

of snail tracks

lockdoon ower  -

the burn's banjo

new seeds jiggin on the err

lockdown over  -

the stream's banjo

new seeds dancing on the air

yin clap!

an a synchronized soom

o minnons

one clap!

and a sychronized

swim of minnows

attercaps

it houghmagandie

... snorlie threid

spiders

making love

...knotted thread

crematorium  -

her sinbrunt

dowie yins

crematorium  -

her sunburnt

mourners