unner the hinniesickle

 he  meditates - bummers

souchin; OM

under the honeysuckle

he meditates  -  bees

humming: OM

the auld gairdner

fouin's watter butt

tears o Gaza on's mynd

the old gardener

filling his water butt

tears of Gaza on his mind

ootside shunkie  -

mochs roond

granny's fite heid 

outside  toilet  -

moths round

grandmother's white head

anither heatwave  -

e'en the bummers

are hidin

another heatwave  -

even the bees

are hiding

abuin the crematorium

reek tremmles,  

syne dwines intae the licht

above the crematorium

smoke trembles,

then fades into the light

amang the altar flooers

a bummer

huntin nectar

amongst the altar flowers

a bee

seeking nectar

i the tuim herth

a vause o reid roses

bleezin

in the empty hearth

a vase of red roses

blazing

 aw day feidin

as brithers an sisterss dae  -

it nicht she caums's dreid

all day feuding

as brothers and sisters do  -

at night she calms his fears

heatwave  -

on the steekit hingers

the maple's sheddae show

heatwave  -

on the closed curtains

the maple's shadow show

bund in a bolero

the dauncers  -  hertbrak an luve

in a pickle notes

bound in a bolero

the dancers  -  heartbreak and love

in a few notes

(For Abdullah Ibrahim)

i the muinlicht

a speengie rose

... pooder puff

in the moonlight

a peony rose

...powder puff

on a cairpet o claver

bummers

tummlin fou

on a carpet of clover

bees

tumbling drunk

cran 

hurlin

on's ain helter skelter

swift

riding

on his own shelter skelter

amang the scrogs

twa bonnie blae een  -

blawort

in the undergrowth

two beautiful blue eyes  -

cornflowers

the peerie snail

sclims the harlt was  -

maun be lik keelhaulin

the little snail

climbs the roughcast wall  

must be like keelhauling

thoumie  -

jinkin an joukin

unveesible blaws

wren  -

ducking and dodging

invisible blows

i the sin  -

chirries an holidaymakers 

reiddenin 

in the sun  -

cherries and holidaymakers

reddening

he dovers surroondit

bi hinniesickle

...douce dwams

he dozes surrounded

by honeysuckle

...sweet dreams

the hameless chiel bates craw

tae a treadit sweetie  -

he scarts an scarts

the homeless man beats crow

to a trodden chocolate  -

he scrapes and scrapes

ma Iranian freen

hunkerin i the sin

feels it hame

my Iranian friend

sitting in the sun

feels at home