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‘Happiness’- a Question

reach to a creature flick limbed

Lost Things Now Found

Androgyquin

Flipping Freezing

Ocean of Deference

BILL BEYOND LIFE’S BARRICADES

The Mannequin

Waiting for the Wall-Builders

A CANVAS ON WHICH EMERGES

June

You don’t care where the doll could be tonight

To Be Discovered

pancake

Comic Book Collection

The Christmas Chrysalid

Fashion Guru

The play of sun on a prospective lover

Yesterday I Risked To Die

Remembering Sinead

There is more, beyond the water

November 17th–We are Living a Dead Life

As I lay askew

The Survivor

Unconditional

Dead

Are you real?

Rojo

Drowning

One Thing at a Time

Skin

Inheritance

The Gentle Approach

Selling

People Who Look The Way They Are

La Muerte

Perfect Relaxation

Dead is not dead

Still Evolving

MENDING WALL, REDUX

The Cloud Breakers

What Remains?

Highbrow(s)

Blood Serape

Motivating myself

after tourist trap ii

Boot Hill

The Flower Man

PERFECT MOMENT

Half pipped

The Caped Menace

At the Bottom of the Wardrobe

Point?

Singular

Awaiting Rescue from the Flood Waters

silence

My First Parachute Jump

Where the Horizon can be Seen Miles Away Across a Vast Open Space

Lost

The Red Blanket

The Soul

When the sea falls

Vacant

Blessed by a Boon

Where Am I?

the wash

Cactus Cowboy

Thank you

We Are Satisfied

I was Watching The World just like You

The Stuff of Loss

Too Soon

his eyes are the only points of alive

Overcoat

Three Lessons

The Initiation

Estate

Sleepwalking and Me. A Selected History.

Moving Into Place

Sad dead building, Orpheus, laid bare

ANDROMEDA’S ORPHAN

Underfoot

Gravewise

ON EL SARAPE ROJO 1918

Morbid

The Joy of Vulnerability

Outside the shutters…

Grandfather Is Cold

Modern History

The Water’s Call

Face Off

THE UGLY, THE BAD AND THE GOOD

POV

Dead Peoples Stuff for Sale

Dark Matters

Sombrero Soliloquy

Circa

Dead People’s Stuff for sale

The Lost Temple

And So We Shall

3-D

Aye, he got away a long time ago; sure it was awful

Peek

My retro panel

CURANDERO

Thanks for the kind words

120 metres, higher

Liberation

Heirlooms

Please, love me

On the Beach

Alone

Those are not for sale

The Arch

Waiting, watching waves

Of Time and the Mountain

Our Loved Ones’ Belongings

Unmasked

FIGURE IN THE BACKGROUND

Fractioned Decision

A Bay of Storms

tell me where

La Vida es Breve

USP

It is time to wake up!

re:deem

To become the red king

Everything Must Go

the sea the sea

DEVOID OF COLOR

Red

Selling the ‘Stuff’ that Belongs to the Dead

Gauze of Time

The Shutter

SOMETIMES

DEAD PEOPLES STUFF FOR SALE

Welcome to my blue

Spiky

COMFORTERS

Retail Death

A Villanelle on the Seashore

Peacock, 1941

There Is Forever

No Hiding Place

Gold Teeth

The purpose of doors

drown

Time Off for Good Behaviour

Pancho Villa

Utility

The Blanketed Soul

Hollow

The Mask

I Watch

He Who Holds Back the Sea

I roll the dice

The Watcher

The Time Keeper

CHAMBERS OF SOLITUDE

Perpetual Lovers

Shut down

Where Am I?

Still Life, Black and White

Holding Her Breath for Starfish

cloak of desire

Reach

A FLUID QUESTION

WAITING FOR GABRIELA

Unaccommodated

Deceived

Lacewings

Chronicler

Where Land Meets Sea

Last song of a lunar trapezist (or a neo-futurist anti/war poem)

Something Sweet

You Want A Wall?

The Tale of the Distant Bather

First Map

Ballon

We won’t know the reason

Vitruvian Man

Stakeout

A Powerful Messenger

Everything best, has been done.

beyond the starkness of symbols

INS AND OUTS OF RED

Sunscreen

The Green Maws of Night

Line Drawing

Pearl

In this dream I clarify my prior awakened presence.

A Doorway

MORNING ANY MOMENT

Foaming

PETIT GUIGNOL

Gouge in the Oak Door

A Short Play for George

The Sea

The Dying Craft

Formalist Affair

images alight or the fade of an iridescent song

The Portal

Junk Shop

She Writes

MY MOTHER’S HANDS

The Mistress

Roman Numeral Cathedral Blasphemy

Tide Times

St Magnus, Kirkvoe

Peaceful Illusion

Becoming

Walking through the darkness . . .

bliss

Walking Along the Diagonal

Pareidolia

Images

DROWN

On the Tracks

BRAZEN

Leader

UPSIDE DOWN

Blossom

Water Breaking

Trust – a Love Poem

Courting the waves

Why Do Doors Go Skinny At Night?

Forward Future

The Changeling

On The Seashore

ASH GOD RELIC

Seamstress of a New World

The Old Curiosities Shop

Receding

Baby Pencil Pusher

Forward Future

Never Again

Last Cry for Consent

ABERRANT SALIENCE

Sea Bed

THROUGH THE ARCH

Dudelsack

Lilliput

The First One

Communion

certainly

SOMETIMES

Slave Little Tailor

The white tremor

a dramatization

Future Forward Team

Talk of the Party

Vacancy

Borrowed Blessings

Clouds

Vanity is the New Commodity

E-suspense

Victory

Aubade

Performers, Edinburgh, undated

Breached

What You’ll Learn Before It’s Over

The Turn is Coming

Brevity of What This Means

Sunday Graces

Just not beautiful enough

Wilderness

Rejection

Smashed

Jailbird

The Figure on the Beach

Others

Postcard to Nowhere

Monochrome Maze

Your Future is Yours

Sea Dreams

The Beginning Of Our End

Neutral Ground

Siren Song

The Mermaid

Escape Artists

THE FLIPSIDE OF VICTIMHOOD

Alterations

THE TRANSITION

Storm-breaker

Midnight

Mud-Eye Breathless

For the man with the tape

Lone Tree Saloon

No Quiero Problemas

The Mermaid

Boy overboard

Tight For Time

the death of Arnold

Home: Cathode

A Nice Place by The Sea

A Case of The Shifted Gaze

Images

The Watcher

Envy

Home

Tailor Made

Barricade

One blanket, no shoes

How Mermaids Are Born

Universal Shift

Contract

Calle Perú, Arequipa

Collectibles

Localised

Under surveillance

WINDOW of HOPES and DREAMS

I Only

Serape Man

Hell is Human Handed

No Money No Problem

Domestic Violence

Hiding in Plain Sight

Black is the Color (after tradition)

Fish Bowl

Sleep Patterns

82.70

Nightscape

Lacunal and Arid, A Most Unwelcome Breath

Display Case

Memento Mori

A Tailor’s Bespoke Lament

Atlantic Blue

Mask of gathering ages

The Tired Mexican

Lost Kingdom

Divided

I’ll be watching you

Wanted

The Milliner’s Dilemma

Curiosity

Two Interiors

Pablo’s Red Poncho

Thorns

I thought I was safe here

MY RED COMFORTER

This Night Me

A Pretty Good Trick

Torre Tagle Palace

The Proposition

It is what is not there

And So We Shall

The Steward

My Pain For Your Enjoyment

CARTOGRAPHIA

Prickly Pear Stare

A MAN’S FEET

Son of the Original Sin

Beauty of Darns

My Other Half

Released

Mexico City September 2017

Bandera

ALTERNATIVE DRAMA

At Watsons’s

Religious Fusion

While Buzzards Soar

Mexican Standoff

We May Wear Sequins but We Don’t Sell Them

Mermaid

Radio

A Cup of Coffee

A Ghazal

Opuntia

Knock Knock

Fishbowl Freakshow

On the grid

from here

The Lament of the Sombrero Man

ELEMENT: AIRY

Lallies lusting in me kaffies

Decimal

Sea Horse

Quantum Zulu

Scarlet Tanager

Please Turn Away

SCRATCHES

Handmade

The Cat Walk

The Keeper

A Fish Out Of Water

How to Survive a Nuclear Attack

Very like a wail

Missed Connection

Decipherers

All the most beauteous things

Lifelines

El Amanecer

Gums

Cracks and corpses

Forward Future

The Boat

Mermaid in Flight

Batch no: Vol.O4.Ch.10

Leaving a Thief

I REMEMBER YOU

Discover

Tyranny of Tapes and Other Vices

Spill

The Pond Dweller’s Story

MAN’S WORLD

For Shaffic Abboud

Cookie Monster

My Mam Is Nothing If

Where did my Jiminy Cricket go?

Ocean’s Abandon

Nobody Gets Too Much Heaven

Simplify, Simplify

The Bird

Grade Two

Bettina

The Untold Benefits of Stroking Owls

enthralled / enthroned

Trollfin

The Jukebox

The Heart(h) of the Home

3 Poems

Distraught

A Chapel

The Green Mile

Demented

Embracing The Journey

Blue Palm Tree Throne

The Big Dipper

Behind

Long Lost Twin

Hypnosis

Time

the thirty second end-of-life flash of a gay tourist in the wrong country

Narrow View

Measurement

Failing Lexicon

You Saw Me Seeing

The Great Art

Falling Into Arms…

Creature of the C

A Conversation With Mr. Landaverde On My Guilt

Circling

Beauty Contest

Blur

Final instructions re seating arrangements

Not a sea creature

We Need to Drink the Steam

The Hermit

(note found on napkin at the turf coffee house)

Tapestry of She

straightforward bending

Yield

THE COLOURS OF YOUR DREAMS

Shuttered Thoughts

X Factor Town

39 St James’s Street

Of a Feather

The Graffiti Garden

Beyond

Middlemiss Red

Watching from the Wings

A Child

Empty Chair

Blue Graffiti

BACK HOME AGAIN

The Cage

Black and Blue

The Woman Who Shook in the Blue Chair Room

The Longing of Blue for the Brush

Victims

Nightmare

Personal Delivery

Painted

Equipoise or Nature Manqué

Treasures of the Town

Good Husbandry

Oracle

The Tread of Secret Kings

The Antique

Mermaid

Embryos

Black Cat

Fog

Inner Parade

Mermaid in a Glass Dome

You Are There

THE MYTHOLOGY OF STEREOTYPES

Now while it’s raining

BINARIES

As seen

MIGRATION TO A DARKER WORLD

Antler Truth

Not For Too Long

ALMOST EGYPTIAN

Tulgey Wood

Revisiting St. Melaine

On A Blue Sky Beach (Strange Feet)

The Nudest You Can Get

The Music Box

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