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THE PERFECT BABY

Untitled

Light Upon Light

The Edge of Days

Panorama of hue

Weighing In

Haunting

Worth our weight in work

Weight of Farewell

Like Mother Like Daughter

Of All the Ways

Lost Futures

A brief account of our intended projection

Foregrounded

I dreamt that I was dead

The Old Farm

The Child Questions The Scale

Learning from Birds

Comeuppance Under Construction

Weighing Lambs

Divorce

Smite

Travelers

Nothing

This Annihilating Force

In the absence of

The Post

Picnic

It starts with an ending

Air Lift

Hanging Loose

Focus, Spring

The Weight of the World

The leaving and the left

Breathing Dance

How do you weigh the air

THE WEIGHT

Bad Actors at the Pity Party

Memories of Everyone Else’s Colorado

The unfortunate event of the sandwiches

The Weight of Waiting

Bag Lady

Keeping an Eye

Lighter

When it is Time

An offering

ritual:release

Guardian of the scales

Non-Human Nature

The Moose Hunt

Offerings

Bait

Winding Down

Anti-national

An Emily Dickinson Symphony

Untitled [your words weigh heavy]

Blue Tote

The weight of the world

Tipping The Scales

La Galerie Éphémère

Weighing

The Weight of Nature

Impermanence

No Plugs on Cradle Mountain

HEARTFELT

peak

This Moment Of Goodbye

Things

Bodies Blurred Together

BREATHE THROUGH THE NOSE

weigh me

The signet ring general development project (Song of expansion)

Hurty

Unless You Say

Moon Glow

Down the Rabbit Hole

Green Mountain

Self Knowledge

Narrator

Amulet

Returning Home

TRACING THE WAY TO THE LIGHT

Hand me

I’m Begging You to Knock It Down

Antigua Blue

Fundamental Measurements

don’t look back

You Are Not Meant to Hold It All

Naxian diaries, 02.09.2023

The Weight on Her Shoulders

Super blood moon

regret

TEMPORAL ELECTIVES

The edge of aliveness

My Bag

DECORATION

the gift

A Saving Grace

The Night’s Highway

Twenty-One Grams

22 Ounces of Leaving

Earth, breathe

on a thread

Weighing out the options

On Broken Wings

Growing Up

Moon Struck

Strawberry Moon

Dead Weight

Drop the Weight

Nacht

The Tideways

The wait

Transitions

Avast: A Child!

Barren Moon

Everything Disappears

Weighing Your Words

Hand of Time

Conspiracy

The Hood and the Wolf and the Night

Outgoing

Red Planet

Flip me upside down

Release the Peace

LOST IN THE KNUCKLES OF THE HAND

A diamond between his teeth.

Pink Fir Apple Night

Blue Moon

Uplift

THE BACK OF TIME

Chasing Down the Moon

Room Tone

Beyond Always

Rite of Passage

A Nightmare

A Winter Afternoon

Night Away

Matching

Selene

Moonwalk

Mapping

In Limine

Ephemeral

The Hand of God

Ladyfingers

When pigs fly and hens have teeth

Barley Moon

Paschal Moon at Midlife

DISTORTING SNOW MIRROR OR MIRROR MIRROR IN THE SNOW, WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

Rose Red is the Moon

Born Under An Angry Moon

The Moon Cried…

Moonchild

The First Night, 2013

I Can’t Remember You, Albert

Blue Moon, October 31, 2020

SUPPER’S READY

A reckoning

Snowfall

Phenomena

Hands Off

First blood

Reaching for the Moon

Life Cycles

Temporal Vertigo

A Murmuration of Words

Totem Warning

A Collector’s Item

oxygen

Pebble

The Point

Give your granddaughter your vote

Mundane cling

Once in a blood moon

Colour of flowers

Motherhood is born of a blood moon

The Boy Who Once knew

Road to Heaven

We Stack Up Reasons

Grapefruit

My Ruby

So Much Tenderness In My Universe

Sands of Time

BABY DADDY

Pileup

Stack them up

Lunar Pareidolia

What We Know

Open Top Hustle Ride Jam

Red Sky at Morning

Prophet

Much To My Utter Unsuppressed Delight

To Motors (A Golden Shovel of Kipling’s ‘To Motorists’)

Balancing Vehicles

Man In The Moon

FOUR WHEEL DIVE

Intuition Is My Tattoo (for Sinéad)

Mechanics

Dereliction

The Final Farewell

Knuckle Down He Said

red

STARDUST

Twenty-first century Ozymandias

Helter Skelter Coupés

The Warning

Borrower

Walking on your hands

Precarious Pile

The Revolution

BLOOD IN THE SKY

Landing

Pink Carnation

I Never Wanted a Brother

Herald

Upon Losing You After Seventy Years Together

On Knuckle’s Edge

RASPBERRY MOON ECLIPSE

First day

Grand Piano

What is your name

Genesis

Metal Boxes

Dream Unfulfilled

Baby Drivers

Selene and Little Red

Strawberry Pink Moon and the Red Coat

Safe Zone

Life on Two Wheels

The Graveyard of Girlfriends

Weird On Top

There is nothing quite like running with a big sister

When I look up

The Greasy Pole

Rubberneck

Car Crash

Thunderbird

From the earth

Hierarchy

EPITAPH

Cars don’t grow on trees you know

The Automobile Tree (with apologies to Joyce Kilmer)

Junked

Oracle rewrites wheels

Broken Things Make for Gorgeous Sculptures

Archeology in 2323

Growing Up

Clearing Out

Poetry And War

Fire Sale

Crushing

As the Bonnet Pointed Skyward

Tips for a sci-fi film

Vroom-Vroom-Bang-Bang!

Infinite Expansion

All Over Town

Rainbow-Hued Highway

Thought-Trains Under A Vehicular Visage

Red, pink, black, blue, white

tip

brake check

Magdalene

[TURN LOVE UPSIDE DOWN]

Monument

My Life in Cars

I Would Not Regret My Past

Ride or die

It was first a threat

Of Summer Dreams

Accumulation

When I Craned My Neck

Let

Henry Ford’s Totem Pole

Playground under Plastic

Albert Camus, Killed by Tree

In the Early Hours

After the Deluge

As the Trees Died

Carbon Capture

Scrapyard Blues

The Tree of Consciousness

The Other Picture

Troy

Balancing Act

Let’s Dance

Farewell

The Undocumented Escapades of Lizzie

workload

The Car

The Reluctant Diner

THE WHEELS OF THE WORLD

Waiting

SWEET-SOUR REVENGE

Memory Lane

1959

BILLOW

Catching the Moment

On-the-Job Assessment

The Park Bench

Woman with a red umbrella

And There She Goes Again

Lost

The Case of Mrs. Brown

A Liar

Grey Day

LE MOT JUSTE

and when I picture you leaving

Leaning In

Struldbrug in a Fuchsia Coat

Ode to Utopia

The Machine Scooping Blood

Every. Minute. Of. The. Day.

Windows down

The 143

New York

To Lose Everything and Die with It

The office drained her of colour

Traffic

Getaway

Don’t Name Your Ride

Seeing Red

Ethel

ADULTING

Butterfly

An Urban Tale

Neath

Baggage

My Gran’s Brolly

Manners

Castaway

Roll Down The Window, Please

Taxi

The Kindness of Strangers

The Decapitation

Walk with my Dog

Reincarnation

I wouldn’t start from here

Miss P Catches a Taxi

Cranberry Suitcase

A Brief Politics of Joy

The Colorful Passenger

Holland Taylor shows up

Junkyard

Forgettable

Have You Seen?

Bird of Passage

That most precious gift…Time

Party 7

Its Raining cars!

Drink Before the War

A brief rendezvous

Climb

RANDOM ACTS OF KINDNESS

Old Friends

Help

THIS IS SENSELESS, YES, BUT DO STAY WELL

PINK FUZZ

DANCING TOO FAST TO DEAN MARTIN

Old-Fashioned

Umbrella

One Wednesday

Cherry blossom amongst the dead

Take Care, Dear

Spinning Out

Chameleon

the unexpected attention of strangers

Loving is saying goodbye

Brolly Lady

Right Bags Lady

To Be a Flower

Cutie’s Cab

Time Goes By

WE COME IN PEACE

MEMORY

It’s never too late to pack up and go to meet your truest self

Getaway

The Meeting

Mary Poppins in Manhattan

The Visit

Escapade

All I want you to do is drive

On the Kerb

Sally

Pop Colors Save The Day

Always happy to help

COLOR ME GOOD

Where to?

SOFT LANDING

Buggin’ Out

Cognitive Red Incongruence

T is for Tightrope and Trampoline

A Seed Of Friendship

Directions and Corrections

Waiting in the Rain

From Fiction to Memoir

Mistaken Identity

FAREWELL AT THE TRAIN STATION

Directions?

PRIDE (SONNET WITH A KINDLE OF COLLECTIVE NOUNS)

Tybalt, Prince of Cats

Shadow Side

IT’S ENOUGH TO MAKE A CAT LAUGH

The golden hour

Schrödinger’s Cat

Down the Line

Kokimo

Finding Your Joy

Transmoggyfied

First meal of my Peace Corps experience

adjust for the parallax

Delilah and Precious and all their kin

Renowned Companions

Liminal Space

Adopted Elite

ANCESTORS

I’m Not Driving All the Way to Barnsley

Musings of a Poetic Cat

The Heir

Optics

TRAPPED

Immortalised

Silhouetted

Stray

Lessons my cat taught me

Schrödinger’s Cat

Gallery of Shadows

Curtain Call

Hantoosh

Yes. Quite.

Feline delinquency

Cat

FELINE FEDORA OR A CAT PLAY À LA VICTORIEN SARDOU

FATHER

We called her the mad cat woman

They Started as a Set of Three

Horizontal Angel

Lording It Up

Varnished Floorboards

Dressed To Kill

The Cat Burglar

Alley Cat’s Anthem

TRINITARIAN EYES

A Royal and Ancient Welcome

In the long room

EMPTYING THE OLD FAMILY HOME

Same Spaces

Still Life

A cat is contradiction.

Butterscotch Tabbies

Collar Catastrophe

Matrilateral Line

Feline Commands

Ode to Myself

Wild Thing

The Sacrifice of Love to Love

Sir Ginger Blueyes

The Shadow Knows

Bad heir day

Stray

Put the Hammer Down

Cat Tree

Iris

The Weeping of a Bride

An Aging Cat’s Complaint

Vagrant Song

Regular Feline

Double

Curious

Vibrissae

GINNY SPINNAKER

WHEN WE WERE KINGS

One Tiny (R)evolution

Fe-lineage

Prospects

Costumes

A Thing with Wings

In the Swarm

crescendo

My Cat King and Queen

The Eyes Follow You Round the Room

My Accordion Lungs

A Monarch

Pictures of Cats

Art History

Gods

Mr Felix

Stray

Sister

Ninth Life

The Artist’s Cat Critiques His Work

Double time

Lovecats Triolet

Tuxedo Cat

Creativity and madness

The road to Birmingham

Homily

When I Forget How to See

As I am

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