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The Well-Founded Fear of Injustice

NIGHTLY MAELSTROM

Absence of Always

THE WOUNDED SOLDIER

You Made Your Bed

So Far Away

quiet unto the void

One Day: A Ghazal

Untethered impracticalities

Revolution

The Morning After the World Cup Soccer

Grown ups tell lies

Afterwards

Where your ghost at?

The mind is an astronaut in space

I DO NOT FEAR YOU

Isolated

The Teacher

Last Rights

A Mother

A Table at The Blighty Café

Preparations

Rime

The Moon Tastes of Soup

Oiseau de Jaune

Forgetting My Name

Ultima Thule

NEVER THOUGHT

All That You Could Do

Damn this ridiculous organ…

Hear Me!

Automaton

Brushy

Story of the Flying Head

II i i II

A Fixed Point

Words Weaponised by Haikus

Draw Me A Tomorrow

Just Needed Some Space

THE MOTHER OF A POLICEMAN PROTESTS

Night shift

Chemotherapy

Resistance

Mutability

Launching

How to Say Goodbye

The Uighur Prince

wild visage

They too are whirling

Exploration

The Lobster Considers his Options

Report card

Miss Life Lost Her Finger

Untethered – A Villanelle

EXPLODING THE CHRISTMAS MYTH

Etch A Sketch of Pain

The Next Day

IT IS FINISHED

Angst

KATA

gold earrings

luxury drafts

You Wake

* Attention *

The tether

Two Ways of Taking Up Space

Blue Monday – On Repeat

New Year’s Resolution

It Could Also Be Laughter

An air of invisibility

Wasteland of Nothing

A Sketch of Declining Promise

red coat soot hair

Stand Up

SPACE CONTROL

The Wall of Oppression

The Coming

dramatic space drifting sequence

Power

Dark Days

dark flower

Catching The Last Bus Home

Pas De Deux

Dishonourable Heft

A Mute Tenor

When I Set Down

L’Anachronisme de l’anarchie

#WhereAreTheMissingChildren?

Egg Timer

Mars flight

when venezuela betters

Entotsu sōji hito

Tick Tock

Stunning Names for Cats

Enough about me

Fight

He Wears the Eyes of a Stranger

Are You Not Hungry Too?

The Clothes Line

Brushstrokes

Genetics of a revolution

What’s it for?

The future belongs to insects

Resistance

Living

Warriors are Grown

Healing

Shades of Cement

Rise Fall

Ghazal, Alexander of Macedon

Ask the angels

Nagasaki Turnip

Stalemate

The Curator

The Eyes of Agnes

Beard

pathophysiology of preposition

Helpful Journey

lobster man

The Real Me

The Bicycle Thief

Soul

Dissatisfaction

THE WAR

Dreams of a Samurai in Red

Have Faith

Twisted Bridges

It was decided to fold up my town

Envy

Heavy Verse

23 confrontations

F-Words

Making an entrance

The Day after the Existential Vote – 16 January 2019

In the Pink Wash of British Accra

Where is love?

Cultiver son jardin: don’t knock it

The General

Spectacle

Remorse

Hidden Christmas

Suiboku-ga

Rememberings

She’s there because she is

I’ll tell you why

Spinning Love

Elculo

Defender

The Little Girl in my Kitchen

Pegs

Four Red Years

The Tao of Headdress

Frame By Frame

Shades of pink and a lighthouse

Garlic bread

The shop window effect:

Is This A Diorama?

Did you vote for this?

DEAR NEIGHBOR,

Adorning the Night

Cut out

Madge

WHAT?

LOT 23

Leaving Manchester

A broken vase

The fever of the terrible tomorrow

Our Mr. Lee Ho

Misdirections

Gratitude

Someday I will comeback

You need to get in more.

A Rorschach Moment

The Quintet of the Holiday Inn Cafe

STOP!

Bogle

Collage Town

Why is it like this?

Traveler Tell

I opened you gently like paper and your skin made sense to me

The Morning After

Dundee Santa Disaster; “Lost His Heid”

Paper-Thin Constructs

Transcending the night

The First Four Sightings

A Demented Railway Journey

GREYSCALE

Chop

Tiny Town

Dread Locks

scratch

ACUTE PERIL

To Build a City

The Moon and the Ladder

MY GRANDFATHER’S FUCK-OFF BEARD

You and Your Chimneys

OLD ROPE FOR MONEY

A fine disguise

Watershed

Stew Morgue

Gibber

UNSPOKEN EPITAPH

Look Out

A Perfect Samurai

Thoughts on (not) letting go (v.2018/19)

Top of the food chain

Broken Images

Circadian

warriors

doing one’s best in crane city

Torrent

Cinderella’s Story

Endless Construction

Are We There Yet?

Two People

Blank-faced

[Conversation Stopped and We All Looked Up]

Somewhere in Her Breath

BEFORE BECOMES AFTER

The Man Who Drew Nude Goddesses

The Crescent

After New Year’s

these days it’s not enough to be a face

What Keeps the Keeper

Always blue

Spray of Anger

TED’S IDEA OF WHAT HAPPINESS IS

Build Your Own Bridges

The Lost Operetta of Gilbert and Sullivan

New Year, Same Fear

Wonderland

Mongo Drongo vs Tokyo

paper houses

My Life Crawled In Front Of My Eyes

The Cipher

Shards of Cherry Blossoms

Morning Breaking

THE WILD

Mother is a Magpie

Grinding, daily

Shepherd’s Pie

mv:echo

A TEAR HERE

Bright star

Cracked skies

In a World of Two Dimensions…

New Year, New You

In Collaboration with

crackleshoot

The Second Coming

A BREAKING HEART

The wee hare

Out in the Cold

ON THE ROPES

The Legend of Last Land Fall

The Headless Emperor

Handwritten, Calligraphic Postcards from Sirius, Mars

Sea Space

GENEROUS RED ANIMALS COME IN FROM THE COLD

serpent sky

Refuge.ees

Le rouge et le noir

The Stars from a Canyon

Fragmented

Her Passion

Cardboard Harbour

Gutter/stars

Christening

Sky River

I Can See Unhappiness Anywhere

MEGADRIVE

relation ship

Living Water

The Wildest Parties

Ghost Town

Split

A Dangerous Road

When it rains…

Chin Curtain

All God’s children

Awe Struck

HALF A HOLLOW SKULL

canyon

In a Bag as Big as the World

This is our city

The Deepest

The bloody bush

Rock, Paper, Scissors

Rouge et Noir

end of summer in rome

Grow Up

Leo’s conundrum

Our World, Our Responsibility

lighthouse

Milky Way

Irresistible

My Place

Darkening, Brightening

Pop-Up Memories

Alien

BELONGING TO THE CUT-UP CARNIVAL CITY

‘Take Me To The River’

Grant Me Clemency

Nurrevir

Truth – a master sculptor

Under The Nebulous Grey Sky

River of Life

I REMEMBER

We Look Up

Asentamientos Pinamar, Argentine

Astral Villanelle

Paper Town

I Have to Go

home is where it all lies

Bottle of Stars

Haven’t Felt So Cold In Years

Good Thick Darkness

Surrealities

HERE BE DRAGONS

Collapsible, flat

A Deceptive Appearance

Swallowing Stars

The Translator

Figurine

TEN NOTES FROM THE CONDUCTOR

second-best room

THE SECRET CONCERT, HAMBURG, 1942

TRA LA LA to THE MONSTER

In every vibrating sound

a deliberate scattering of thoughts

Wallace Hartley

Complicated Grief

Two Lovers

Once It Was The Smoke

Lucyville

The Third Thing

There is a harp

Pure Drops

Everything Flows

Carved

An Instrument of Salvation

His Mother’s Rock

Between Two Rivers

Things You Never Forget

Taking Too Long

The Spelunker

The Masque of the Harpist’s Death

A Victorian Atmosphere

PAPER CITY

The Space Between

Dear Lise

Angel of the Apocalypse

VIVID

Over

Ornamentalism

Blue blood

Dublin, 11:34 p.m.

Sweet notes of Freedom

Karakorum

Cut

For their sport

phoenix uprising

Our lamp-post

angels’ harps

The Colour of Silence

THE SITUATION

Take a Deep Breath

Atacama

The Pink Giant’s World

Anxiety

Grief Like A River

Paper City

Poppets

scission

A WISE CHILD

Dimensions

Air of Belonging

Nothing else but alone

Siren

Drawn

A Shut In’s Stanza For The Louse Metropole (in the style of Onegin)

god has left

Oh Well

Fractured

The Court At Sea

Tidal Pull

Cave

Breathe

Well, just a thought.

(de)coupage

Harpist

Archeological Digs

Outreach

Stars Behind Your Eyes

Open-Air

Mournful melodies

The River of Stars

Automaton with Minerva

TODAY AND TOMORROW

Ball of Confusion

Moving

Edith, Corrupted

Locusts

Splinters

Six-five-six

AWAY FROM THE YELLOW STREET LIGHT

Before a voyage

Stargazer’s Lonesome Song

Our Turn

CALLOUSNESS OF INGRATES

The Gift

Temptation

Folding

The Child Artist

Between red rocks

Unstuck

The Wind

Paper beats rock

Art Fine-Tunes Resiliance

Ornamentation only

Crazy girl

The time of harps

Scraps and shadows

Stilled but not Quieted

Mars

Zeno’s Arrow

Blot

A CERAMIC CREDO

Brick by Brick

A PAPER CROWN

unraveling a concerto

The Narrows

Feeble Attempt

Small Town Collage

Clay and empty space

Just Home

Planning Interrupted

Later

Schism

Graffiti Magritte

We Are Made of Brick and Clay

Gas Mask 1

Wall

Cups and Pentacles

Sorrow

Whorl, Whirl, Whirlpool

My Stars

A Cup of Quiet

Dream Vacation

Love For The First Time

Autumnal Equinox

Bodily

a petal named control

Shami chōrō (elder shamisen)

Things My Mother Left Behind

Talking to Ourselves

banquet of rings

Creation Story

Pedestals of Glass can Always be Broken

Runaway

Spiral Of Doubt

To keep you

A River of Sky—but Why?

Press Home to Unlock

You left me hope

Vintage Incense

Whorls and Striations

Harp Concert, 2030

Another Alcoholic Sky

Blurring

FAR and AWAY

SAINT THERESA AND THE FIREMAN

Turbacyon

FINGERPRINT FACE

Theme and Variations

The Hagfish and the Blue Shark

You died this morning

Glamour

A Time Like This

I confess

A Heist of Sorts

Fine-Tune

Ever Afters

Artist in a Suit

Cherub

La Plage

Every single light bulb

fingerprint

The Bachelor

Autobiography

Cadence

Enlightenment

Cheating the Tide

Stuck In Amygdala With You

Sitting Room

Wolves, Higher & Lower

UNOBTAINABLE

The Crack and the Stars

Threshold

Vulcan

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