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Blue Truth

Beach Party

Recycled Dream

Genealogy of Smoke

Artifice

The last to die

The Sky Is Not A Metaphor

Etcher sketch

Cruel Weaning

Lighting The Cigarette

A Brand New Day

Filipinas

The Red Arrows

Flamenco

mother’s milk

Momma’s Portrait

The End of The World

Familiar Face

Plastic Perfection

Milkers

The Ten-Year plan

LID

Shift in Perspective

William Blake dreams of London in its current condition

When an island is not an island

Rivers on every Side

MÉNIE MURIAL DOWIE

Even the City

Pseudonyms for a Disillusioned Kingdom

Tiny Island of I

Displaced

LONDON NEEDS YOU

Profound Misconceptions

SOMETIMES IT’S GOOD TO MISS A BUS

Sister

This woman is not an island

We Breathe the Same Air

The meaning of an avalanche

Leaving Traces

You Cannot Blame Me

3959 miles down

Four Five Wondering

Once Grown

Bag Lady Pastiche

Probiotic Season

Fire Exit

The unbearable lightness of being

Pearl

‘I’ Land

Misadvent

not to be known always by my wounds

América Latina Vol. 1

M.A.S.H. 2020

The Wink

tiny little island thing

Message

A fine wish

Unrestrained

Bottling It

Synoptic Accounts

Shopping

Wire-walking

Deserted

Lactose Intolerant

“…To Their Fainting Country Cling” (Shelly’s ‘England in 1819’)

In the Year of the Metal Rat

Blue Sky

Insular Spectives, Birth to Death

The Cost of Reflection

Milk

Memories of Malta

Island of Pines

One

To Rally Beneath an Alley

Lizard Blizzard

ESCAPE

UAIGNEAS

Border

A WALK IN THE CLOUDS

Island Shadows

A connection between soles

Who is trapped ?

Where Did You Grow Up?

I find myself…

Unreal

Sunsets Always Fade to Black

02/02/2020

Thoughts of gods who are silent

Three islands

All Change

Neptune spies a funeral cortege

I grew up on this tiny little island

Mirrored

Drink Your Milk, Conformist

ON AN ICEBERG

Shadow of the Huma Bird

Retrospection

The Opposition

correspondences

Home and Horizon

Man meets boy

Distorted in paradise

This Island of Illusion

Lactose Abstraction

Curvature

Elizabeth wrote to me about Orkney light

Free to Dance

Concentrating On Hoping

a place I call home

The Good Old Days

Pedestrian, Distinguished

Cross Stitch

Obvious Questions

Circuit

Never Land

A Lightning Spark Touch

Verisimilitude

Self Care

Ghost of a hope

Elemental Meditation

Avarana

The Cure

Sheer

The Zookeeper

THE ISLAND OF LOVE

Turning

Bleach the Sky

Impassioned Choices

Autumn Writing Prize

Growing up at Nanga Kumpang

On Howard Street in Baltimore

Land To Milks Sky

Babes in an Earthquake

Rough Seas

Forecast

Of The Meltwater

This is not her

On the Shore

Accumulation

Window shopping

Exhibitionism (Westminster Blues)

Northeast Monsoon

Milk: What a Surprise!

Not guilty

3D Twister

DELIVERYMAN

I miss my little island

I am not a terrorist

Eventually you find the joke that hurts

ancient mothership will be reborn

Purity of Snow

On Display

The Island

Blue Skies

Pieces of her

Emily Dickinson’s Cow

Childhood

Hidden On Display

Grandma’s Big Lies

I, the island

THREE QUIET WORDS

Getting from there to here

Hymn For The Capital

She’s not there

This Neighborhood

Terra Incognita

Light!! Really?

the art of the leg

Little Reverie

Geography Unbound

Lullaby

The Last Drop of Water

Deja Vu, Deja Vecu

Islands I, II and V

Fishing Off Galata Bridge

Ooh La La

Light on Water

Tight little island

What Will Be Will

A Juggler’s Aria from The Pyrenees of Ice and Mist

Crossing the Sun’s Path

Isle

Practice Unseeing

YOU DANGLE CLOUDS OF COTTON WOOL

Epiphany

The Compass

PROMISES ARE MADE TO BE BROKEN

Surprise, surprise

Ancient Glory

If I had grown up on Magnetic Island

SHARED APPROVAL

Spilt Milk

Mirror, mirror

The Halfway Bar

marlene

Winter

Growing up on a Tiny Island

Crying Out For Precious Minutes

Unreliable narrator

Thirst

INTERCHANGEABLE ME

adrift, a-dreaming

Unfamiliar

It’s White White

interdisciplinary ekphrasis

Lichfield

Do you miss me?

supremacy Will Destroy Us All

Out of Art

Odette

Step Onward

Rainmakers

Dancer

far from my island

Plastic (disambiguation)

Plastic Portents

Plastic Bottles Filled With Milk

In Pieces

Roots

Narrow aperture

Silence in Motion

NOTHING

Liquid Gaze

COTTON WOOL CLOUDS

Can Can

GOING NATIVE

In Transit

A Crude Depiction of a Lost Moment in Time

THE BRINGING TOGETHER OF PARTS

Tsunami

Reflection

The Casein

Human Touch

Ocean Body

Jotting Notes on an Airplane

we could do blank, couldn’t we

Leda’s Children

Between the waves and trees

10 roles of a witness

Eulogy Elegy

Third-Floor Walk Up

Make the Darkness

Blood-Drenched Luck

Pastel

The Price She Paid

Legs Dancing

The Gospel of a Gun

Molten core

Leave the Light On

The blue bus

Desert Island Survival

You Can’t Outrun Squally Rain

Winter Reaper

Remote Viewing

General Election 2019

The Tiny Island I Grew Up On

Woodstock, 1969

I look for the sky

Almost Love

EXPULSION FROM OSTRICH HEAVEN

Travel Broadens the Mind

DISOBEDIENT

Reflections

Shoeboxes

DEVOURERS

Howmuchness

By the Time I Get to Phoenix

Blinking out

Bottled Up

Imagine Together

A Jagged Collection

Failures

Expectation

Island Bound

A New Self

Invasion

Fenestre fantasy

I grew up

To The Woman In Black

An infant dreams

Window on the world

The island grows in me

EXPERIENTIA DOCET (EXPERIENCE TEACHES)

REMEMBER MILK?

a tripod of transference

Every Street an Island

immaculate deception

Apartment 3B

Performance Art

we called it home

Bottled Clouds

Peeking in Windows

No Pedestal Holds Us Up

I don’t belong in the world but that’s what it is

Milk Time

After Logue, After Carson, After Auden, After likely some Housman I’m forgetting, After Keats by Way of Chapman, By Way Of Pope Lattimore Fagles Etc Etc Etc forever&ever… After Homer

Three Storeys

LAST WORDS

Someday

The Body, Eroded

Travel idea

The Raft

Artificial Sky

QUANDARY

The Watchers

This morning earlier and now with the light going

BOWLING BALLS FOR CHANGE

Follies

First Floor Window

Milk me a cloud

Rice Lake

Deconstruction (with apologies to the artist)

These Three Eyes

The Celestial Puppeteer

It wasn’t a big garden

Alice, Interrupted

Seen, unseen

Cloud Juice

upon that isle

From Here to There

In Time For Lemonade

The Outing

THIS ISLAND

My Little Island

The Picture On The Red Wall

All of Me

A Fairy Story

She Had Thought The Water Was Shallow Here

Postcards from Babel

Pull

Beautiful YOU

My Island Home

Doppelgänger

Crescent Moon

Red

Et in Arcadia Ego

Top To Bottom

THE ART LOVER

Dating for Beginners

St. Helena

Walking along 145th Street in the New New York.

Awkward Testimony

American Primer

Perils of Existence

Peep

The me I knew has been disappearing

The Reggae

Intro

The Life of the Party

A mess of convoluted loveliness

Bowling for Blue

You Don’t Need

Blackout curtains, can’t tell it’s morning.

but the dancer

Mnemosyne

Anyone seen Marcus?

Island – a villanelle

Menagerie

The milkman

Things Always Come in Threes

FEEDING HUNGRY MINDS

WHITE AND MACAQUE

Nuvens or The Wild Clouds

Chronology of Man in Lower Frame

That Leg Follows Me Around the World

Quo vadis?

Outro

Barque of frailty

Ground(l)ing

Heat(wave) to the Pig

AFTERSTORY

Inflatable Hamburgers

Piggate

Testament

The Body Natural

Blood Milk Water

Flocked Wallpaper

They called her Broken

Growing Down

Appearances Kept Up

The Lease

Pieces of My Love

The making

Swallow Me Whole

Fat Floats

IN THE FRAME

Objectify

Island

Little Piggy

An Extra Guest For Dinner

Remade

“So where are you from?”

Paradise?

Rock Bottom

You Don’t Know What it’s Like Until…

The Hotel in Two Cities

Pig Fatra

From Up Here

Visual Impact

Orkney, Many Ports Of Call, To Perth – A Life Well Lived

powerless to galilee

Three-window trick

Breaking

The Girl behind the Counter

Too Hot for Pigs

Smothered by Consideration

When one Door shuts — it stays Shut

Be(ing)

Death of an Island

Treading Water

The 26th of June, 2016

Look Closely

Small Islanders

When you told me about pigs

Après moi, le déluge

The jugular vase

Every Family An Island

Hog gone daz not die – 500 pork chops never made!

Raise glasses, rest ghosts.

Un coup de des jamais n’abolira le hazard

Ship Pig

Why don’t you just ask someone for directions?

What Gives us Life

I’m Literally The Pig Swimming Past

Personae in the Night

HOME ALONE

Shoes, an outer covering for the foot

under/not under

CELLS

Theseus

Life Class

Round and round it goes

Balancing Act

Kosher, babe

Friday Night, Over Here

These Legs

JUNK DNA

We are the always on the right side of good

Lavender Lady

Theses of Passion

porcine ponderings

Safe house

Delirium

Deconstruction

Miss

Balance

Limbboss

Memory’s Blur

Idyll of the pig

A Dreamer

The House Where Love Boy Lives

Little Alsop

Metamorph

Building/Sound

Pig versus Dog

Beware the Emptying

What We Heard Last Night

Pigfish

Antimatter

THE HOUSE THAT LOVE BUILT

Goodbye, Uncle Edward

Marble Statue

Nothing is ever truly silent

Snouts, Trotters, Tusks

Material World

Thirty Sixty Ninety

Lies About Pigs

Bodies of Conversation

Who I Once Was

transmogrification

Discarded

Nobody’s Party

Come For A Swim

Baby, We’ve Been Having Sex In Art Galleries

The Performer or The Fallen Dancer

My Deer

Roger

eleganty

And then…

Extracts

Greta Rattles Her Cage

Bones

Yoga in the Gallery

Fragments and Wholes

Three

The Holiday Exchange

doll

Glacial

Inner Self on the Outside

Light Causes Shadows

The Computer Mocks

YEAR OF THE PIG

THIS BEGAN AS A MISTAKE

Suburbia

Anthropocene

Pool Boy Idyll I

Split into Pieces

Exposure

The Making Of The Quilt

no purchase to exhale

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