Up Loch Fyne - by
/ The humped grey fish-watcher has become with one wingflap
/ The elegant trailing heron that Hokusai dreamed up,
/ Far from Loch Fyne.
/ May my…
short poems
Scotch Astrology - by
Omen
/ In the gloamin.
Eilean Fraoich - by
“Eilean fraoich, Eilean fraoich,”
/ ann an solus uaine
/ eadar d à bh ù th
/ air Sauchiehall St. …
Auckland Farewell - by
Easter 2010
/
/ three master glide
/ soundlessly
/ past north head
/ pacific wave
/ going home
/ new voyage…
Taxman - by
Seven scythes leaned at the wall.
/ Beard upon golden beard
/ The last barley load
/ Swayed through the yard.
/ The girls uncorked the ale.
/ Fiddle and…
Wee oors - by
In the heich oors o the nicht
/ stars strip aff
/ and douk in the rivers.
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/ Hoolets grein for them,
/ the wee feathers on…