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SUPERNATURAL

Sunset Silhouette

The Enchanted Forest

Colours of the Evening Path

Nowhere Else

sprouted

King of the Andes

Dementia

Pestilence and Misery

post-human existentialism

All Purple

Mum’s the Word

The city that abandoned us.

Spirit of Greenland

CLICKING CASTANETS

Nowness

Morning Call

Old Father Time

Put the Needle on the Record

Biting off more than you can chew!

Twig

Changes in Perspective

The Sky is Pi

Datasphere

The Promise of Crocuses

Rain-bow

Bite

Damn! Those words

No Escape

RED DOT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PHOTO

Inappropriately Dressed

84 Heads

Battle Ground

The strange death of Jenny Joseph

In Place

Morning Call

The Cell

Don’t They Make Us Look So Young?

The Ventriloquist

To Illustrate, To Evoke (Ekphrastic for Daniel Frost)

Matilde

Clouds low around the ankle

Purple Stranger

Electroconvulsive

Cardinale Frucci covets snow.

A Cry For Down There

The Mouth Trap

As Long as You Are Wearing Fuchsia

IN A DREAM

ACCLAIMED

BIRD OF PURPLE VIVIDNESS

The Philosopher’s Delight in Moon Light

Life Line

shoosh

Saturation and Value

Splinter

Florinda

Hidden angels

Curate’s Egg

On the threshold of eternity

Studies on the Losses of Travellers

Family Matters

Afraid of Heights

birth non birth

LAUGHING STOCK

Tilting at Wind Hills

Outcomes

Colourforms

Memoir

THE PEACOCK

Mouths Talk with Forked Twigs

WITHOUT A TITLE

Abracadabra!

The Rising Fall

The Woman Who Refused to Wear Shoes

Topaz

The End

The Tunnel

For Lack of a Better Word

Helicon

Smoke and Magic

City: Beloved scar

No Screams

RISEN

Marshmallow blue

Tittle-tattle

The Clouds and the Clearing

Strange things come out of your mouth

Wrong Turning

Oh, what the fate!

City Life

ICHI

First Draft

It’s Lonely at the Top

Chewing Gum

The Divorce Of Heaven And Hell

City: Fog at Dawn

No More Gossip

The Scent of Waves

A Matter of Perspective

Call Him Whatever

She Defies

Blue Sky Thinking

fine white teeth

White like the snow

Brilliant Explosion

Jellyfish

Valley of the Dolls

The Offering

Expiration

mea culpa for carving “scheiße” into christ’s chest when it shound have been the father, not the son

Twigs cannot realign themselves

Her, Here

Portrait of the Artist as a Noble Gas

Green Words

The Bird Lady In The Mauve Cape

Novus Ordo Secolrum

Kentucky

A Cloud of Unknowing

Laughter was once an offence

WE KEEP SMILING

Crossing Home

Creamy Model

ESCAPE

History lesson

Family ties

Magic gone astray

Shadow Lights

Triumph

Pleurosis neurosis

Crimson red madness

Abbé

Mirage

BE BACK SOON

Cold War

Vanishing

Cloves and bad breath

Artist’s statement

Mama

Clamping

It’s all Blue

Proxy

THE GENESIS OF BLAME

Because Memories

purple woman

twiggy wiggy was aware, twiggy wiggy had such a scare

Symbolical Blue

The Grape Cape

Mother

Subconscious (rub)

Father Bernard

The abuse of rejection

Run

Hannah Barca

Homework

Maybe

Believe Me

Burning Wood

Blue for you

The Trial

Eat Fast, Die Young

Blue Clouds

Retreat

Dentist advice

The Fog

Duality

Party Trick

VALLEY GIRL

Search Party of One

BLUE

RIPPLELESS

Exile

The Rarity of Blue

Famine

Carrying the Colours

Blue Day

Humbug

IDEAS MATTER

The Gender Revelation

Little Sister

6 February 1918

Blue Smoke

Interim

Mademoiselle Martha

It’s Time

Revisting

Android

The Witches’ Test

My First Friend

requires no training

Morning Meditation

Gloria

The Odyssey

Scent of Purple: Haiku, 4 Parts

Uncanny, Her Sapphire Gaze

Smoke

NOT YET OLD

Blue Eyes

Sildenafil Citrate

Balancing

The Takeaway

The Escape Route

Love the shadow

La Religieuse

I AM ELIJAH

The Journey

The Berlin Egg

Tangible Erasure

Escape

ONLY ONE’S SKY IS BLUE

Skinheads at the Window

Listening for her future

Oh, how I would like to disappear

I AM EVERYTHING YOU’RE NOT

Yves Klein has exploded again

Truth Be Told

A Bucket of Blue Steam

Cristina Deborah

The Colour of the Night

A Body

Blue Worlds

A Life Distorted

Mirage

Ganga

Ephemeral

Cyborg Skin

In a tunnel not unlike Gotham

METAMORPHOSIS

Primary colour

Coming and going

Seagull

Is it a Surprise When Love is Dead?

Blue

Quizzical Left

Prussian blue suicide

Wind Tunnel

QUESTIONS

Dolls

of blue

FACE

NOBODY’S GONNA MISS ME WHEN I’M GONE

Rhapsody in Blue

The Dead and Their Stuff

Tag

Stuff You

Peoples Stuff for Sale

Stuff and Sales

Dante dot com

Matter of an Unspecified Kind

People for Sale

ANDEROID

In the beginning of begining

The Stink

A Soft Embrace

Iris

they brought and bring, we all buy that stuff

Gemma in the Waiting Room

Unpleasant on Pleasant Street

Magical Forces

The Perfectionist

Deluded

Waiting

Twinkles

Can I be immortal?

HEAVEN IS BLUE

Guilty

Emma Jane

Blue Haze

Plum Robotics

Threaded Wonders

Victoria

Maker

Life Becomes Inventory

Magic Moments

Dead Peoples Stuff For Sale

Mystery

It’s faraway, this freedom

Tell It How It Is

To Have and to Hold

Why You Should Always Give Purpose To The Things You Create

True Vintage

Ambush

the little girl with no hair

WHEN YOU’RE DEAD

The whole shebang

Pretty Bird

Caveat Emptor

FOG

Being/non-being

FOR A LIMITED TIME

Diamond in a Vitamin Jar

Corgito Ergo Sum

Rabbit in Headlights

An Eyeful

Fear of the Unknown

Dadi

siliconed skin, eyes fired blue

The Butterfly at the end of the Avalanche

Divided – by a common language

The sky over Berlin

Time just stops without you in it

This house doesn’t sell

Lost Perfection

Diesel Rabbit

Attic Sale

life

Abstract Dream

Yard Sale for the Dead Guy’s Things

Behind These Eyes

Half-Price

Uncanny Valley

BLUE: THE ENEMY

Living Dead

Another Me

World of Whirls

The Collector

See

Corpseflower

super-presence of death

Shadow love

The Detour

The Sad Sign

The Downtrodden

The mirror never lies

Trying it on

Hue and cry

I AM LIQUID INSIDE

Another Life

THE HEART OF THE LIGHTSABER THE CRYSTAL IS

Unscathed

Limits

The Mount Methodist Jumble Sale

Toymaking

The Smoke of darkness

Severing ties

Afraid

Swallowed

Brennan’s Burden

Because There is No Excuse

ALL SOUL’S DAY

Lost

Image in Gallery C

Tango

Ashore

I’m Somebody or Nobody

Titanic Deckchairs: Farty Towels

The Blue

Time

Mystery Date

Between the Pages

Blake Hall Station Incident

Innocents

How she calls

Who Will Buy My Stuff?

A REAL WOMAN

I Tremble

I Die in a Sense

Singularity

O, Artificial

Whimbrel

The Final Verdict

Frenemy

egg

from The Dream of Icarus

Dead People’s Stuff For Sale

eyes don’t need to speak

MY INSIDES ARE OUT

Nothing

Goodwill

ORIGINAL FACE

Coloured

Beachcombing

Christmas Presence

The Archaeology of Human Remains

The Vaporization of Glassy Glenda Glow Lips

She Almost Made It

Invisible

Tones of Blue

A Love Letter

Longing

House Clearance

What They Feed On

On the beach

Eggoo’s Return

A breath of new life

Smokescreen

Flotsam

Going For A Song

Blue

There, where the edge froths and the limits cannot be seen

Eros

Gaudy Florals

Cloud or Candy Floss

Beached

COMPANION UPSET

Mist

LEFT BEHIND

St John the Divine and the sea

Undiscovered

SECOND SON

After death

Monster Under the Bed

Who are you?

Smoke Gets In Your Eyes

Clothes For Sale

Delicate Pastures

A Discussion

Into the Blue

roost

Bermuda Bound? Glasgow G3

A Mannequin’s Truth

For Sale: An Upright Piano, Off-Tune

My Happy Place

It is profound

where blue begins

TIDYING UP

Celestial Bingo

Grafting

Flash-Dazzle

Wave

Estate Sale Fiesta

TURNING TIDE

Good milk for our children

Magic Moments

You

Souring

Higher Being

I Dream of Genies

Shorefood

Clearance

Living the Still Life

A Hundred Year Project

A Teacup Can Exist Without Your Gaze

Beach Combings

Waiting (at the wig fitter’s)

If it sticks

The Final Price

The Beach

ARTIFICIAL IDENTITY

The Chair

The Support Group

A Trancing Wake

Detailing

Wildfire

ENDLESS SUMMER

Boning Breaths

Some Kind of Practical Joke

OUR FOOTPRINTS WAVED AWAY

Trove

Hey There

Ruled by the Moon

Closing Down Sale: Everything Must Go

Without/Within

Icarus on the beach

For Goodness Sake

I See You

His Grief

Happiness is a Warm Blanket

Porcelain Remains

Talking Head

It’s time to wake up

Silver Horse

A short comment on Capitalism and Existence

Not your doll

Permanence

Anniversary

Reinventing

Infinity

Face Value

Sandals

Dead Peoples Stuff or Ale

Inhale the sea

Pretty Mannequins All in a Row

Vigilance

The Muse

Fields and hills

Cheated

Sunday

Balded Lessons

Content

Dispossessed

Dusty Old Stuff

A NEW KIND OF NAKEDNESS

I hide, I peep

The Acolyte

Dummy

I Have Never Seen The Sea

Coming Home

And so, I chose to write…

The apathy of dolls

I’ve Seen Them Before

LITTLE WOMAN

Odds and Ends

the girl that could move mountains

Gaucho

Neverending Grace

Taxidermy

Crisp

Close Encounter

ARCHIE

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