vide causeys  -

casten intae the plainstanes

peever beds

derelict streets  -

faded into the pavement

hopscotch beds

rodden tree

laden wi berries  -

nae Yule tree bonnier

rowan tree

laden wi berries  -

no Christmas tree lovelier

auld photy  -

sinlicht's wrocht

ghaists o the faimilie

old photograph  -

sunlight's made ghosts

of the family

derk cluds  -

on the burn

splatches o blae

dark clouds  -

on the stream

patches of blue

coorse wunds

soop athort the burn

...furrd broos

rough winds

sweep across the stream

...furrowed brows

hoose o the weeda-man  -

ower the doorbell

a muckle wab

house of the widower  -

over the doorbell

a huge web

gift shoppie  -

amang the fossils

her emerant fingernails

gift shop  -

among the fossils

her green fingernails

the youthie rinner

oot trainin  -

the burn an me clappin

the young runner

out training  -

the stream and I clapping

scartit intae the pew:

A N

loos

J C

scratched into the pew:

A N

loves

J C

 creepin eevie tooters

hystit, afftakkin

...juist ill tae win at!

bindweed trumpets

raised mockingly

...just out of reach!

days o drouth  -

the burns skelet

shawin throuch

days of drought  -

the stream's skeleton

showing through

butterie

afftakkin the bodach

stoiterin

butterfly

mocking the old man

staggering

seterday mornin play  

...keengfusher

fushin

saturday morning pastime  

...kingfisher

fishing

the lowpin troot

goves doon on perfit circles

...zen maister

the leaping trout

stares down on perfect circles

...zen master

the watter

stooryin back

tae the sea, tae the lift

the river

racing back

to the sea, to the sky

it rist

atween thae reefu weengs

...keengfusher

at rest

between those frantic wings 

...kingfisher

scuil hoalidays  -

he hunkers on biggin saun

ere faither's lowsin tyme

school holidays  -

he sits on building sand

till father's finishing time

craw dooks's derkness

intae the burn

whilk swallaes it

crow dips his darkness

into the stream

which swallows it

jazz throuch the apen door  -

a butterie

jitterbugs by

jazz through the open door  -

a butterfly

jitterbugs by

maggie

hunkers on the bucket lid  -

ah'm tentie o't thinkin

magpie

sits on the bin lid  -

I watch it thinking