Observances - by
A boy row in a umman’s coatie –
/ In a man’s sark row a lassie:
/ Nor wash…
short poems
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…
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
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/ three master glide
/ soundlessly
/ past north head
/ pacific wave
/ going home
/ new voyage…
The Bewteis of the Fute-Ball - by
Brissit, brawnis and broken banis,
/ Strife, discord and waistit wanis,
/ Crookit in eild, syn halt withal –
/ These are the bewteis…
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…
Lucy Ashton’s Song - by
Look not thou on beauty’s charming,
/ Sit thou still when kings are arming,
/ Taste not when the wine-cup glistens,
/ Speak…
The Solitaries - by
The merry badger keeps his way
/ Nocturnally,
/ And I go merry to my play
/ Even as he.
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/ Minding our own business
/ Tending our own,
/ We…