the Trades  -

tentie as anither bittie

snecks wi the cludy jeegsaw

holidays  -

watching another piece

fit the cumulus jigsaw

heizin an fawin -

skatebroders

on concrete swaws

rising and falling  -

skateboarders

on concrete waves

a girsslowper's lowpt

intae ma kitchie 

...knule-kneed

 a grasshopper's hopped

into my kitchen  

...its knobbly knees

twa dalmatians

warsle 

...spreckles afore ma een

two dalmations

wrestle 

...spots before my eyes

july mairchers  -

weet bates on thaim  -

this rousty parawd

july marchers  -

rain beats on them

this rusty parade

as though the wallie yins

on mither's sidebuird

twa swans pander

as though the porcelain ones

on mother's sideboard

two swans drift

nicht train

pewlin throuch

...waesome moothie

night train

wailing through

...sad harmonica

 snail  -

brither stravaiger

ayewis flittin

snail  -

brother wanderer

always moving house

swans

on the burn

cluds

swans

on the stream

clouds

tooter

teuk his braith awa

...wrocht blues

trumpet

took his breath away

...fashioned blues

 efter the flude

 bowders heeligoleerie

...watter's  runes

after the flood

boulders in confusion

...river's runes

granson skairs ma bed  -

taigilt 

...ah dwam o attercaps

grandson shares my bed

tangled 

...I dream of spiders

auld sodger  -

sin sheen's frae's medals

blinndin us

old soldier  -

sun shines from his medals

blinding us

keek o day  -

on the brae

bricht bouets o brume

sunrise  -

on the hillside

bright lanterns of broom

peerie snail

chairtin'ts

jurney

tiny snail

mapping out

its journey

deuklins ettlin tae

sclim the sliddery brae

...lik aw youthlins

ducklings trying to

climb the slippery slope

...like all youngsters

swan's nest  -

yin egg

growein cauld

swan's nest  -

one egg

growing cold

voar's

firie funtains

gean trees

spring's

fiery fountains

cherry trees

 abandont tank  -

in an oot o the barrel

speuggies

abandoned tank  -

in and out of the barrel

sparrows

Ukraine  -

she maits'r chookies

amang brent-oot tanks

Ukraine  -

she feeds her chickens

among burnt-out tanks