Flashback (Barn Door Fadlydyke)

Forkit lichtnin cracks the Heivens in twa Lichtin the pit-mirk ferm, celestial fire Aa nicht the storm dinged on…a hard doonfaa Ram stam the rain, stottin aff barn-cum byre Flashback, afore the snawy hoolet skreiched Laird o the teem derk crannies o the barn Afore the chaumer rikk deed in the lum Far jackdaas reest noo, sentinels o sharn Here, creashie nowt aince chawed their hey an neeps Neth Andra Watt’s reid coo, milk sookers shone Vrocht inno cheese bi his gleg, eident wife A bonnie wumman Kate, ay kneipin on Slaw crap o granbairns grew up on this ferm The barn door kent them aa, rang wi their ploys Time has etten the blistered brods o the door Peeled back the peint…blawn chaff, like littlins’ toys Nae mair the bowf o dug, the miewt o cat A rabbit lowps ahin a roosty ploo A birdie’s forkit taes has pammered tracks Far coortyird dubs lie broon an settled noo Star, the muckle shelt wi hirplin hoch That made a tcyauve o plooin in reverse Langsyne is stoor, wi dyeuks that thronged the troch Anely the trees remain, the craps, the girse The terrier Michael sneckin rattens’ heids Like thrissles as oot frae the rucks they skaled He’s noo a memory, in his maister’s heid Like tatties rogued, an like the strae he baled