Images: colour and monochrome. Text: English and/or Scots.
The twilight, when it’s late in the day and we’re holding on our way to midnight and first light.The Scots language/the Scots leid:The gloamin, whan it’s faur i the day an we’r haudin the gate tae the howe o the nicht an the gray o the mornin.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Girse, lichts an leddy.
They got to the other sideand crossed their hearts,one assumes, or wishes.Back-heeled the pastas far as it would rollinto the long daysand the creeping-crawlingdoubts – all out of mind.
Not crying through a mirror.Not tickled by the sparkleOf a subway train that isDragging commuters intoThe light of an ever-industrious Sun.Not sure that some algorithm willCradle us out of the way of progress.And so they walk, and so they go,And so they’ll get home. The Scots language/the Scots leid:No greetin throu a keekin gless.No kittelt … Continue reading Casual Uniform for Now
Today was a rainbow surprise.The way they processed chanting.Now and then and forever,They hoped, one of themWould twirl a littleOn a death-defying axis,Like the shoppersThey passWho also mustThrust what living coloursThey can between the hands or sticksAnd the drum that beats and beats.
The Kibble Palace started off as a conservatory at John Kibble’s house in Cove, Dunbartonshire, around 1865. In 1871 it was floated down Loch Long and then up the Rivers Clyde an Kelvin to its new home in the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow’s West End. Popular with both tourists and Glaswegians, you can see all … Continue reading The Kibble Palace
The Scots language/the Scots leid:No that sair altert frae A wis a wean.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:In ablow the penns.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Pairtick Corse, Glesca.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Up an ower an doon.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Biggin an brigs.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Airtin fur the heich gate.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Hame-farin or takkin the gate.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Juist a wee swallae.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:It’s throu-by.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Weirin roon.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Theirsels twa?
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Wull an wale.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Clud an biggin.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Lum i the winnock.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Faur north.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Aweers o fleein.
Built 1960-63. Modern architecture from sixty years ago.The Scots language/the Scots leid:Fleemin Hoose, Glesca. Biggit 1960-63. Modren architectur frae saxtie year syne.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Bricht bew on a dreich day.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Gaivin at concrete.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Backs an fores.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Gittin a wird o a merchan?
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Bonnie on the cairrie.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:The Glesca Toor at the Glesca Sheence Centre.
Too late?The Scots language/the Scots leid:Aw oot?
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Keepin deek.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:Heichs an howes an cairrie.
The Scots language/the Scots leid:In aw Julie.
Gregor MacMinto 