82 Again

swallowing purple
butterflies that unsettle
each hard won comfort

81

in darkness of light
held by ice and heavy clouds
swan calls bright as stars

80

village of ice and
a man next door scraping and
the same tomorrow

79

geese flying for joy
verve removes their past to be
beautiful, mortal

hundreds of geese

goose leviathan
ripples the sky - common calls
swim inside my chest

77

moon through a window
draws me up into rain clouds
held apart by  light

76 High Wire Act

doves preen in the rain
simply together just now
under ocean sky

75

winter sun places
glimmering fish scales on wall
beside the wet road

74

somewhere hides the sun
behind tombstone winter sky
days become quiet

73

hidden hedge sparrows
bare twig huddle singing to
sun after rainfall

72

from dark trees rooks fall
to rise up over ploughed field
all the while calling

71

a grey night shrouds day
fog inside has got outside
this is like wishing

70

a garden silence
the awareness of water
after nightime rain

69

trees unfurl autumn
bronze flags in flawless blue sky
roadside sparrows splash

68 supermarket cafe window

crossing lamp flashes
warning my reduced thoughts of
a moat of trolleys

67

wind traces the woods
shifting leaves and branches to
an unseen ending

66 summer 2012

water everywhere
swallows stoic in grey skies
a summer for fish

65

glances see you best
before i make my world - love
timeless between us

64 eriboll

the winding road goes
around summer's reluctance
hemming deep blue loch

63

this full stop summer
after winter. absence fills
a hanging grey sky

62 present for black dog

a collar woven
in bright st johns wort yellow
for long winter days

61 Swifts

acrobats cancelled
too wet too grey too few flies
replacement act: ducks

60 Dogs at Inverleith Park

a place for the chase
imaginations on grass
flying tails by  heart

59

clouds impassively
over wet summer gardens
a chill wind distracts

58

emptiness daughters
messages of polished sky
this is how it is

57

so much summer green
celebrations of desire
unseen smotherings

56 Dovecot Caravan Park

please dont die my dog
be this summer forever
sharing our shadows

55 Invernaver

does the rain speak of
quietism to horses
mired by landfall

54 Dog House

bee's fabrikennel
is ginger biscuits and cream
the place to be seen

53 Spring Plough

two hares on hillside
centuries crouching upon
resurrected soil

52 depression is

a slippery fish
talk all you like - it wriggles -
full of chemicals

51

spring rain softening
village assertions into
primordial pools

50 mussel man

spirals of thinking
make a shell to hide away
my heart's connection

49 introducing the night

street edifices
loom past lamp - night's announcer
rooftop city owl

48

thumps of crow squat hard
into ploughed fields - beaks that seek
upturned worm sing spring

47

a dark horizon
captures my fear -everything-
frozen to the spot.

46

you forget all that
you remember - years tumble
through into darkness.

45

Fields of windy rain
gather up winter birds on
one foot keeping warm.

44 Muirhead2

And now you are twins
One under hedge one standing
mud hangs on your coats

43 Muirhead

the three winter cows
in muddy field practicing
stoic huddling

42

screaming and pushing
through day into night - winter
rages at birch trees