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Bone stag sings to the pregnant tree

”Parallel death”

Losing the thread

Menir

Shades

Tidal Room

Actaeon

Facing It

I have a secret

Distant Thread

Dementia Blues

The Deceiver

When the Thunder Died

Strap me Signori

Hidden in the Woods

YOUR BLUE PERIOD

Visions of Johanna making it to the Wimbledon Semifinal

Blue Symphony

Regrets

SHE LOOKS FORWARD

some girls

Old Wife’s Tale

Black and White

Black and White

Studio theatre

A Revolution is Coming

Biologist

First Taste

do an angelou, straighten your back

End Of Days?

No Mermaid

PHANTOM’S PHANTASM

Armageddon

The Cat Walk

Thirsting on the Promise of Wine

Please be seated

You

Suits you Madam

Showman

Her Royal Flyness

Spooky Pooka’s Message to the Nation

The Man Who Measures Suits

Dream Chair

AWAY AWAY AWAY

Mr

The Mermaid’s curse

The Latecomer

A Date with Grim

Fitting

Bad Days

Picasso’s Blue Period Exhibition 1901-1904

Bone Branch

Him

mythic thing

The god of transitions

waiting games

Go Forward (Future)

Fatality

Echo

A Skeletal Secret

A Forward Future [for Rod Chenko and friends]

Of Gods and Mermaids

Nothing Lasts

On the rocks

The Time-Cutter’s Apprentice

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE

Improbability

The Interest of Society

Out and Out

The anguish of dystopia

Heaven knows

The Shrinking Dress

History

Lot No. 32 – The Merhag

LIFE IS NEVER FAR BEHIND

The Assay Office

A Splash of Unexpected Brightness

Out of my Element

Bone Gardens

The Future is Now

Mismatched exterior wear

Urgency

‘Mrs Hadley’s Hand’, Royal Worcester parian vase (c. 1865)

From Twitcher, a Gothic novel

Crackling Blue

Sea Creature

FALL OUT

The Future Has Stalled

Neptune’s Seat

Transparent Dome

Remember Her?

Androgynous

London Fashion Week and The Bespoke Tailor

Blurred oscillation

Murdered Maid

Seeing is Believing

Simple

It was years ago

The Question of Bodies

Fragment from a Mermaid’s Diary

The Mermaid’s Curse

Molybdomancy

The Hand

MEASURING LIFE

Blurred Lines

Son of a tree

Invisible

No Window

The dominant

PAINTED SOUL

Wave Syllables

Our Seed

That Someone, I

For Ward

soft rolling like lull

Blue Chair

Sea Monster

Washing the Walls

Such a Dear

(As it happens) I do know where the mushrooms are

Reaching Out

Death, the spring and other thoughts

Lady in Black on Blue

Cloche

Lambda

A Daguerreotype of a discourse by Herne the hunter

Watcher

Of Water and the Spirit

An Alien Has My Finger

Fair Game

Palimpsest

The Liars

Wind Song

Joint

Apprehension

THE LAST TRUTH OF THE TRUTH TELLER

A SCREAM FROM BEHIND GLASS

Hands Are Hard

Interior with bleached coral

The Rut

Under Glass

Feejee Mermaid lookin’ for a good time, call now

Detective Work

The Joys of Blurring

ON THE HORIZON

We Live in Miniature Form

The Queen

Scarecrow

THE UNHEARD SHOUTS

Float

One Girl is More Use than Twenty Boys

Midnight in the Hall of Mirrors

THE EXPLORER

not in a bell jar

Betrayal and Punishment

Who Reigns?

SOME KIND OF MESSIAH

Swim Like You Mean It

Lend Me A

Us

The Yellow King

A Scream Unheard

Of Ether and Inertia

Assumption

you kept your winter

Best

Beautifully Ugly

Reflection

Metamorphosis

Hidden Filipino

The View from a Glass Window

What Once Was

I Bleed Colour

PHANTASMIC HYBRID

Come One, Come All

Did I Hear Your Ocean Waving

Imprint

Philosophy

a bird flight and you are too young for such a distance

Of Demigods and Men

In the end only colour will survive

a specimen of sorts

A Selkie Visits The Mermaid

Going Home

The Dare

CC

The Gnome In The Dome – A Wondrous Find!

The FeeJee Mermaid

Spoonfuls

You once followed the course of the packs

My Grandfather

A Ghazal on The Shrunken Mermaid

Follow

Ghost

Transitory lives

Unnatural

MINOTAUR

Shadows

From a Sad Mermaid

The Boxer Reads To Me

Self-portrait from the Edge of the World

The Last Wave Goodbye

Flotsam

Woman behind a chair

nihilistic vegan

THEATRICS

Epilogue

Suddenly I turned around and she was standing there

The Cuttlebone

AMY ON RAIN

warau hana

Night School

Mermaid Plunder

Darkness Here

Repairs Here

THE HAND OF THOUGHT

This is the upside down world

Many

Mermaid in a Bell Jar

We. Don’t. Think. So.

utopia

Perspective

Two Dead Deer

The alchemist[s]

Mothering

Habits

In Origami Folds

PRIVATE OTHERLIVES

Fishwife

Oneness

sit down

OH BUDDHA

Between an Image

Correction and clarification

I SAW A MERMAID

Make It Mine, Make It Spring

Baby Shower, This Way to Basement

Earth-Like

Selkie

SHAKE

BLURRED POLAROID

You Are Welcome Here

I can feel trouble in my bones

Trapped In A Goldfish Bowl

Dancing in the Rain

The Circus

Unfortunate Events

After our quarrel about Rubin’s two faces

No Mermaid

DEATH OF MY FOX

ALIEN BOY

Generation

Life in Sepia

The Magic of the Sea

Annihilation

Chromophilia (song for B) (aka Love is energy, of course it is)

Kickshaw

A life stays stashed

THE MERMAID’S LAMENT

News From My Ex-Husband

A Brief Moratorium

The Reflection

Level Head

M E

Regret Box

HENGE

Tell them not everything is illuminated

The sailor and the sea

Freeze Frame

& are you asking me

Skeleton City

Stress

The Scream

Beyond price

Hearts in the Jungle

Lost Boys after James Miller

‘Dan-Dan! Dan-Dan!’

Mermaid Empath

217 Poetic Points (ekphrastic excerpts)

Now

Jackalope-Girl Decides No Children

Aquarium

SEDUCTRESS

Neptune’s projects: Making a tail bracelet

Teach

A water cure

Restless

In The Balance

ONE OF US

Anatomy of Lovers

Look!

Sweaty

Sit Nicely!

Somersaults

Horror Under Glass

In The Absence of Lights

Little Feet

SHADE OF AN ARM

sacred

GIRL, UNINTERRUPTED

Stephan | Höfn

RESISTANCE IS NON-EXISTENT

Japanese Torture

The Throne

Just Watching

The bones of things

Helping Hand

Accordion

Skies drained in chairs

Swamp Men

Hands of Goth

Disappearing Flowers

I Don’t Know Where to Look

The Butcher’s Wife

Cut to the Chase

A Bomb in the Park

A Writer’s Hand

To others, don’t we always look

Grounded

When

That’s What He Does

Womb

Dear woman

Shirsaasana

Sit or stand

Skeletal Wisdom

A Temple to Misère

THE WPK

Hustle & Bustle

Wendigo

Ombromanie

Head First

Pretzel Art

Memory

The Clearing

Miasma

Poser

Graffiti Paint

La Danza del Venado

Soon

The Act of Shedding

Heaven in Teal

Eden

Movement & the making of paper:

Acrobat

Failure

My brain is hanging upside down

The Empty Chair

The Visible Humerus [or in the land of the ossified]

Amputation of the Soul

EXERCISE ON TATAMI

Making Up

Animal Tranquility

BEHIND A FILTER OF FEAR

Blackout

UNIQUE

The City of Culture

Lessons I’ve Learned

Quietly To Herself

Inside Out

Newbury Street

Spin

The Tale of the Black Satan

Backended

Behind the Screen

How to Assert Yourself

Colors and Words

Intimacy by the side of the road

The White Cover

The Heart

Su-25

Transforming Hal

Pater Familias

Liminial

The contortionist

Colour with us

The Lesson

Far

Floors Have Ears

princess frog

STAG NIGHT

Alone

Muse, unamused

Can You See Me Now?

Encyclopedia of Presumed Joys

Behind the Scenes

What Is New

Whisper

Wan Under Wolnan

Narcissus

Framed

time will be latex, a dance électrique torqued contortion fantastic

Correspondence

Butterfly

Anais

Graffiti

Haunting 101

How to measure the ocean

The Contortionist’s Lament

variations on a blue chair (after William Carlos Williams)

Soul Thief

Blue

Practice

Painted

Roadkill – Sigmund Meets Bambi

Prisoner of The Mind

Painting my Memory

Feeling, Being

The Recusant

Frida without Arms

Stag Weekendski

At the Altar

Arrival

Wallflower

When Living In The World Has Such An Effect On A Human

The Building

Transition

RIGHTSIDE WRONG

THE HAZY KALEIDOSCOPE

Close Scrapes With Death

Blue Jealousy

Memory of a Blue Chair

A Final Sup

Blue

Fragment of a Wedding Dress

Personal Renaissance

Dolls

A Lone Shark Takes Chair Island

Bones & Discontentment

Wisp

Fragment

Head Stand

out of the stream of silver nitrate seeming

RedI

Before We Part Ways

SHADOW HANDS

Tilted Axis

I, Upside Down

The Wisdom

Thin Film

Biodegradable

We Showered Together

The Paint Purge

Made in Heaven

OPEN HAND

The Photograph

Oh Dear

Plastic Bag

Holiday Romance

INDEPENDENT EXISTENCE

Vapid or Blurred

the price

Parlour Games in the Dark

Almost Human

Uses of tissue paper

be seated my love

A Visit From Grandma

Fragment

skull

Did I Rise a Shade this Morning?

Millpond

The Girl with the Cherry Blossom Trousers

King Elder

Bird in Blue

The Ways of Hands

Contortion

Daphne Deer

Starch

Beautiful (for M.O.)

Epitaph

Extinction

Southern Shadowlistic

Reach Out

The Fallen Deer

Floating

Malleable

Promises

Teach me to love

The moon and river

Floating on a breeze

Topsy Turvy

THE MODEL DAUGHTER

Choice

ASTRAL TRAVELLER

No One Hears Us

Women and Hipflasks

Artifact

A Man Trammelled by Pain

White Silk

AQUA BLUE

Tripping on Daisies

Phantom Lover

Looks like rain…

The Excess of Me

Peg Feed

The Mechanics of Monotony

Scarf

The Death of Animals

Blue

Death Waits for No One

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