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Conjuring a dreamscape

The Pre-Raphaelites

Dougal

Noble Cats

The Seer

Renters (Reform) Bill; or the cats I never had

The Different Sides Of You.

selves-portrayal(s)

ON THE RECEIVING END

Poppies

Shadows of Yesterday

Here Kitty, Kitty…

ISABELLA AND FERDINAND

Embraced

THE AGEING CAT

Angel in the background around which the world of rainbows and redheads and children revolves

I AM A CAT

Ancestral Whiskers

Please undo it

Perspectives

I Am

The Ultimate Math

Mother’s Dos and Don’ts

Heroes In Exile

The Art of Living Regally

FALSE IDOLS

The Weight of Butterflies

We are as the dew on a prairie

Collaborations

Waiting. Grace.

to this constant ache

Deirdre’s Accordion

Gifts of love

Gazing

pond metaphor:

Your Name

Fool’s Gold

Moment

SNOOZE MANIFESTO

Our Love For The Sea

[escape schism]

What the Waves Have Taught Me

A Neptune’s Project

Becoming Summer

Watching, Brief

Drifting the Oceans

What he sees everyday are clouds

Green Floating People

drifters

A Dream

Out of Sight

Faded

Of this I am sure

Nomads

My mother

Listening to songs as a mother rinsing her brushes

Aerial

MUSE OF CREATION

Such Commotion For One Dead Lady

Dandelion Dreams

Theory of the Magnolia Edges

Here’s the Rainbow

Discoveries

Dreaming Land

Collage

Space sponge

Mother of hope

Fantastic Clouds©

she sells sea snails on the sea floor

The Arrival

Offering

Snug is our singing

Verdigris

Little Feral Dew Drop

Mother of Pearl

Close Your Eyes

A Mind of Science

Silver Lining

Wardrobe Essentials

Don’t Look Back

The dance of delirium

Festive

CUCUMBER COCKTAIL

Priorities

A Dream of Diatoms

Fairy Godmother Fact Check

spring

Her Creation

My Name is Sarah

TWILIGHT

The In-Between Time

The Blind Girl’s Song

[YOUR GLASSES ARE ALL WRONG]

Mother of Pearl

Ma Knows Best

Reely rural

Aqua Magic

WERE YOU CRYING, THEN?

Beachcombing

On Gathering

Petrichor

Somewhere in the Afterglow of Ever After

Sisters

My not so peaceful walk

Shoelace and pillowcase

Pearl

The Other Rainbow

THE ENCHANTED LOCH

The light, the light

One Afternoon

Two Bright Tattered Birds

Crinoline

Not as Rare as It Sounds

I’ll never ask

A peek

ALT Text

Pelagia

Spectrum

INTIMATIONS OF HOPE

Double Rainbows.

Sometimes I Wonder

The Corset’s Many Regrets

Musical Prayer

LONGING FOR PARADISE

A Blade of Grass

Wake Up

Two Fairies

The Dream Wavers

Fade In, Fade Out

At the bottom of the sky

Glimmers

NACREOUS WAVE

Lost and Found: The Drifter’s Journey

PYROSOME ZOOLOGGER

Four Days

Night Boy

Squint a Pledge

Tuesday Morning

Banshee Lullaby

Recess

The Instrument I Don’t Know The Name Of

We grow tired

thistledown

What It Means To Love

Forms of Pleasure

Storm Crows

Please rewrite in the style of Samuel Beckett

Kirby

Fantastic Clouds

I See You

Angles on a Feast

Aquarium-life

The Gift

Not Long Ago

The Serving Maid Comments

She is Nacreous

Grass-Fed

Guilty Gluttony

For Ethel

BELLS AND BELLES

Your eyes deceive you; everything does

Why why

Digestion: a journal

Thinking in Terms of Flesh

the art of seeing

Flying with eyes wide open

The Lobster Sees All

STILL, ALIVE

An old story

Jellyfish

Murderous Intent

Arcadian Days

A childish fancy

The Blind Girl

Talking to AI about still life

Reverie

Golden Girl

An Embarrassment of Riches

ephemeral the brush strokes

(re)Consider the Lobster

Arch

To the Other Side

Silent Bleat

For the apocalypse, we wear ball gowns

Pastoral Madonna

What the Storm Is For

Government Emergency Alert Notification

Nobody’s and free

ophelia’s dream

Faraway Climes

Wonder

my solitude

Sky Peach

The World is Your Lobster

AN UNEXPECTED THING

The Sea – written in Umi Falafel Belfast

Digging graves with our teeth

Dinner Is Served

Esponca Liberation Front V The Waivering Wavers

Melusines

the dragon delights in his dinner

Feast

Incurious Fingertips

A Discussion Between Experts

self-actualisation; colby inspired in turquoise

Still Life at the Rock Climbing Gym

Oh!

Collective Wayfinding

Cloud Daughter

Existence

Promises of fruit

Our Daily Bread

The Origin of Modern Mermaids

Where Do You Draw The Line?

What Do You Call This Place

Anxious Clouds

Silk of a Thistle

THE SENTRY

A lot of what he fancies

Pump Number One

River Stones

WHAT? WHO? WHY? HOW? WHEN?

The Centrepiece

Pearlescent

Unbelievable

Damsels or Sirens?

Banquet Still Life: An Empire of Riches

Pronkstilleven

Decadence Irresistible

Own Goal

GoGo’s Still Life

Spitz & Spider Monkey

THE GARDEN

Rocking It

join the dance

Visitor in My Home City

appearances

A LOBSTER’S LAMENT

Interrelations

Problems of Etiquette

LEFTOVERS

Current Life Worlds of the 17th Century

Blue

A Tudor Feast

Illusions of madness

Forgotten Fairies

sigh

Preservation

BREAKFAST WITH SERAPHIM

UTOPIA

Healing

breathe through my roots

Bones and all

In disguise

Lime, Laugh, Love: A tentative discussion with femininity

You Can Take One Memory into the Next Life

The Intruder

Little Girl Dreams

When the Music Stops

Cauvery’s curse

Royal Presence

Shunned

THE EMPEROR WEARS NO CLOTHES

Composition

Too Much

The Prisoner Shall Have His Choice of Final Repast

On Far Emerald Shores

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST ARE TWO IN ONE

Fever Dream

Erasure

RUBY

Smoke and mirrors

a stranger in a strange land

If You Happen Upon Her

Your Abundance is Complete

Making an impression

WATER ELEGY

God

Floral Diving

To Swim

Remember, Reader

Microcosms

The Opposite of Drowning

The Bigger Picture

I hardly see me anymore

Uniform for staying alive

The Claws

Predators Always Sit at the Top of the Food Chain

Bella and the Flake

Torn Skin

Soliloquy

Sunset in the Desert

Feast

Consultation

I am Kate Bush on the Mountain

Post-apocalyptic sky

On The Menu

Last Supper?

Thesbian Cornucopia

Coughing Fits

Jellyfish Women

Still Life

Aliens on Mars

Not swimming, drowning

Gluttony

A Roving Fabrication Specialist.

Before the Fall

They Said It Was A Panic Attack

FALTERING

Saint John Hospitaller Vallettas Honourable Intention

Gretel

Death of an Influencer

Ode to the Lobster Shack

if darkness could

Feeding Myself

Stargazy Pie

Re-See

Take the Giant Lobster

containment

The Smell of Ripening

Medium rare

At the wake for my ex-lover

ZONED OUT

Coral

The Rich of This World

Near Miss

Panopticon

A Banquet of Remains

Dinner Time

Commensality’s No Cure for a Cardiake Passion

Phantosmia

Cornucopia

Neighbourhood watching

Snorkeling for a Mermaid’s Purse of Pearls

Bay green-blue

A little wax dummy

You Cannot Thrive By Sight Alone

Is There Still Life?

A phone (not a dog and bone)

Look Around

Not all sheroes wear capes

Killer Whales Are A Problem

An Eiderwork of Shadow Spun

Miranda’s Quest

To the Rhythms of Billy Shakes

Unseen

Freeze Frame

When We Drove Up to the Lake Home Dad Just Bought

So Here Am I…

Chance Encounters

Breakdown

Blow

Be the fish

Submission

6179 A.F. [bucky]

When We Open the Next Door (For William Norcross)

out of depth

No One Knows

The Book of Realisations

Driving on Acid

Say yes

SURFACING

My Girlfriend Hates Bathing Suits and Pajamas, But I Just Want to Kiss Her Face

Exposure

Bad Hair Day

Oracular

Seaweed sandwiches

Her Photographs

Born From Water

All That I Need Is the Air that I Breathe

fire watch

Far Out

Don Quixote’s fights at dinner

My Father’s Goggles

Washday

Air Swimming

LA CHUTE

The weight of water

Metallurgy Spanish Branch LTD

Egg timer

Spurring Things On

Unbound

Knights Tend To Topple, Then Fall

Goldilocks

Pa Ave

Anchoret

The Destrier Sofa

Breathe

The knight of the Rubik’s cube

Buttoned Spats

Fading Echoes

survivors

Witnessing

Aqualung running club

Treatment Plan

Second sight

Quest

Joust

Nighted

Half a Tale

Sea Baby

Underwatcher

A LUDDITE POEM

Sea Voyagers Searching for Dry Land

Suspension of (Dis)Belief

The Air Before the Ground

The Survival of Venus

Drowning

Medieval Rose

Falling man

Air Is Not Our Friend

Ingrid Coker Finds a Friend

The Palace (a poem for Brazil)

Seals

Boldly Going

The Thing About Jousting

Why bother?

The Cardinal

Armchair Jousting

Heraldry

Jousting

Time

Mr. Magoo and Don Quixote

Mythology of Degree Zero

She told me…

Windmills

KNIGHT TO KNIGHT’S FALL

Tumble

A Picture of You Falling

World Order of Windmills

Triptych for the Undefeated

Analogue Minds in Digital Heads

Touching the Sinew of Our Souls

Playtime

Richy

Knives raised in prayer

Rules

Odd socks

we’re not getting anywhere like this

Whatever This Is

Nonfiction

POP

RIALTO

Gizmos Galore

Buckaroo

Back in the Saddle

and then came Rubik’s Law

Falling in Slow Motion

The Squeeze

Lumens

aliya

I am who I am

Nightfall

GREY

The Lance Fails

Shiny Little Boxes

Chivalry Is Dead

pieces

Welcome to Hell

The puzzle is how to hold it

On the School of Roustabout Violence

Dupuytren’s Contracture

The Tournament

Chevalerie

Her Magnetic Field

ROCKING HORSE

The Nimrodian Anomaly

Pigments

Tandem Miracle

The Joust

My hands …

On Circus Nights

A Place of Death

Neon Lights

A feather

The Tournament

A Fractured Day

Stigmata

Heads or Tails

Blocked

Dead End

One Square at at Time

Spectrum

A lady and her lover dream

The Toppling of Henry VIII

Untitled (One Christmas in the eighties)

Freelancer

Tetra

On Palm Lines and Pathways: The Puzzle of Promise

Joust Nights

January Afternoon

PATCHWORK QUILTESSENCE

Brain Scan

Chevalier

That Speckled Grey

commute

in combinations

Life’s A Horse Ride

It was a gift

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