San Gimignano  -

the youthie painter's claucht 

the toon's cubist sheddaes

San Gimignano  -

the young painter's caught 

the town's cubist shadows

oot

wi a robot dug  -

naebody wants tae pat

out

with  a robot dog. -

nobody wants to pat

sinlicht

doon throuch the treen

...camouflagit sinbather

sunlight

down through the trees

... camouflaged sunbather

ootby the airport winnock  -

burds sweelin

...anely burds

outside the airport window  -

birds circling

...only birds

anither peer faws  -

mappie's lugs

pookin

another pear falls  -

rabbit's ears

twitching

oot fir the bucketmen  -

a bairn's beddie an 

a bairncare haunbeuk

out for the binmen  -

a child's cot

and a childcare handbook

wund

throuch the wuid  -

the dreepin weet

wind

through the forest  -

the dripping rain

(Spiegel Im Speigel)

a leam o licht

throuch the hinger  -

moch's hud a wamefou

a ray of light

through the curtain  -

moth's had a bellyfull

doontoon  -

ootby the kirk

a hauf-chowed aipple

downtown -

outside the church

a half-eaten apple

weet dings doun -

in a dub rose petals'

jeein mosaic 

rain beats down  -

In a puddle rose petals'

shifting mosaic

a brooch on

the tattie-bogle's jaiket

...reid admiral

a brooch on

the scarecrows jacket

...red admiral

skookin in a neuk  -

a weed

wi the bonniest flourish

cringing in a corner  -

a weed

with the loveliest blossom

 jazz club  -

fag reek an

saxyphone wyvin

jazz. club  -

cigarette smoke and

saxophone weaving

croodlin o the cushats

apenin an steekin

the day

cooing of the wood pigeons

opening and closing

the day

kirk barbie  -

incense o the secrifeest

heavin

church barbecue  -

incense of the sacrificed

rising

auld freends

bygaun

...eclpse

old friends

passing by

...eclipse

hame 

frae the battlefront

he derns frae a wesp 

home

from the battlefront

he hides from a wasp

begowkin the gairdner

binwood tooters

agane

outwitting the gardener

bindweed trumpets

again

a pish-the-bed seed

daunces by  -

a buttery jynes the jig

a dandelion seed

dances past  -

a butterfly joins the jig

new monastery  -

the janglin

o hemmers an clourers

new monastery  -

the ringing

of hammers and chisels