Winter Piece - by
Delicate ermine tracks
/ cross lightly
/ in eights on the winter snow
/ there where a hidden ice-brook with its white fur roof
/ winds forward,
/ there where…
snow
Staying In - by
I watch the city shrug its clothes back on.
/ An appaloosa spatter gathers scent
/ that hits the brain the way it hits…
Snaw - by
Snaw,
/ Dingin’ on slaw,
/ Quait, quait, far nae win’s blaw,
/ Haps up bonnily the frost-grippit lan’.
/ Quait, quait, the bare trees stan’,
/ Raisin’ caul’ fingers…
From a landscape in April - by
Snowflake grinds against snowflake.
/ Grass creaks like old furniture.
/
/ I spread silence on the fields.
/
/ I bring home thick squares of it
/ to hang…
An Sneachda mun a’ Chuilitheann / The Snow in the Cuillin - by
Tha fuachd mu do chridhe
/ Mar an sneachd mun a’ Chuilitheann
/ Ach gu bheil e air tòiseachadh
/ Air leaghadh is leaghadh
/ A-nisd agus an…
air an fhàinne, fada bho ‘shàbaid’ - by
rovaniemi, suomi, am faoilleach, 1998
/
/ mac is athair
/ dol tarsuing na h-aibhne gil
/ o bhruach gu bruach
/ san tìr a tuath
/
/ a coiseachd bàrr an…
‘A single quaver…’ - by
A single quaver
/ of loosening ice
/ extends across the silence,
/ revives the air
/ with the almost forgotten song
/ of snow melting to water
/ and of water…
Same, Difference - by
For Kay
/
/ Since each is shaped
/ by all its drift,
/ by every updraft
/ from high cloud to ground,
/ in all the history of the world
/ a…