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Walkabout

Bright Spot

The letter to the boatman.

Freedom has its roots in blood

Long distant shores

a different song

A Charabanc Day

Suicide Bay

The Sea Sins too

Jumper

Journey through time

Sepia

Before

WHAT CAN I TELL YOU?

Step Back in Time

THE ORIGINAL MAMMI WATA

Aqua

Three Poems For A Daughter Locked In A Palm Tree

“if any would not work neither should he eat”

Return

The Calm Before The Storm

Bucket and Spade

When My Shadow Called Out Loud

WE STARE,THEY STARE BACK

Miles and Years Under

Lake Shadow

Moirai

MEMORIES

Insides Out

Dry Fish

What Do Androids Dream Of?

Island Mentality

NEW WORLD

THE BROKEN WHITES

Reincarnated

The lighter

One for the Off

Oryzuas latipes

The One That Got Away

Impression of a field

How To Be a Fish

Birthday Heat, August 1964

Blanched

Perfectly Preserved Promises

Song of the Sun

ghosts

Get Out of My Field

Bewitched

On the Brink

The Dying Process in Dreams

This is the Last Photograph

One Note at a Time

Glow green

(Notes for) A discourse on (some of the ironies inherent within) Cosmic American Music

END

Easter

Boundless Expectations

KALEIDOSCOPIC TEASE

The Sands of Silence

Waiting for the Catcher

glow lamp

Stadium

to carry yours

Sweet Assurances

Hidden Treasure Chest

Mal Aria

Light

Summer Daze

Better in Tune

The Translucent

Quoting Pink Floyd To A Marine Biologist

Sometimes I Can Hear the Wind Sing

Blue-green

A Blue Silhouette

Into The Desert

Joe Wright

Play on Regardless

the burial

GOLDFISH

Choices

Has Been or Never Was?

Oceans on Enceladus

Basso Profundo

known dark

Sudanese Migrant – Summer 2015

SAD

The Stubborn Risk of Emotional Flatlining

The Incongruous Medaka

Aureate

Rock Art

The Studio

Fixer-upper

O medaka

Patch

Unplugged

Worn Pieces

What you call me is not important

A Grammar of the Axe

The Stuff of Us

Hope Swims Electric

they said it happens thus

Vehicular Language

Under Foot

In Aquarium

Rich Girls Don’t Bleed

The Color Orange

Lost at sea

See-Saw

Which is the bliss of solitude?

Earth Jam

The Power of Bright Things

Beacon

Interstitial

Daughter of Daedalus

Pass

The old armchair

The Disappearance of Alden Marsh

Being B

Jacob’s Ladder

Last Summer

Nevada

Lopsided

so joyous, so joyous

Land golden, now forgotten

Open Door

Throne

Push, Don’t Jump, Push With No Exclamations

North goes South

Interconnection

“And It’s All Over Now…”

When Time Reveals Itself

The Gospel According to Eve

Summer Blaze

Hearts on sleeves

Neither the day nor the hour

Desert Notes

Afterward

Arid

TSUNAMI

Heirlooms

PATTERNS.

Wheat Field Golgotha

Before the Drought, and After

Share With Me: O’ Death

Hatch

Childhood Crushes

Insane Ambition

Undaunted

Undetected

We’d Forgotten How to Night

The Stranger

Parched Ocean

The sea in crisis

Substance vs. Style

OILEÁN THÚR RÍ

Work In Progress

A Phoenix of Every Household

Story board

After The Row

On Returning

Glee

The New Mathematics

Spillikins

Circles

All strung out

Nature’s Rhythms

Deserted in a Dessert

You cannot see him. He is not there

All but the feel of it.

CHICKEN FEED

A Golden Day

Time to think outside the box

The Return

If I wrote a book

The Song

Moose

Geometry of Nature

For Archival’s Sake

The Trip

moment

TWO GIFTS

What if we can’t renounce citizenship

Quick Human Nature

Highway

Metamorphofish

what we did last summers

nine letters, with colour

Sit

my Father Plays a Tune

An Impulse To Kill

Small fish

The Perfect Burger

Things I know

Frantz in Port-au-Prince

All Hands

The Returned

Exposure

Signs here now

Where we reminisce, we exist

Al Dente

A Light-Bulb Moment

Uncle Joe

3d

The end

Realignment

Davy Crockett Once Sat Here

The Memory Game

Where Am I?

Photo exhibition, #23A, “Chair”

This thing I won’t tell you

Patience until poetry

Dye The Water Green

Caution- Danger Zone Ahead

A Brighter Styx

Blots

Cathedral of lost hope

Sea Deep Creature

Envy

Tree Zoo

The Memory of Dust

Deep Down

Choreographed Hurricane

Go, Darling

The abstract world

The line of the horizon

Rechem

The Brain.

Loom Love

He Couldn’t Resist

Strip Jack Naked

As Einstein Pedaled

Razorfish

IRIS

Gone to Pot

August 1914

Coward That I Am

Note Book Mark

Reciprocity

Send him Victorious

The Grid

Frightening Glory

serpent

Tangled

Bliss

The freckle counting machine

THE PARTS OF THE MEMORY

Anna Who was Mad (after Sexton)

A PECULIARITY OF CHARACTER

Remnants

Queen Jizabella

In the Blink of an Eye

Waiting for the Ferryman

THE BOY WHO HATED STRIPES

Pop Tarts

cornfield beyond a wood

The Strange Creature

The Boats

Giving his all

Comfort Blanket Stitch

Do you remember the windows?

Spirit tek

A Wolf Dressed In Hope

buckets

Knit Me a Memory

Sad Soul Singer

Behind Closed Walls

Deep Electric Blue

AFTER THE ANGELUS

Jam

The Waverer

dead pan tile

‘Fish Tales’ ~ OPEN ~

Physics near Pluto

Elise

Question mark

Unamped

Photograph

The living sunset.

YEAR 6 LEAVING PRIMARY SCHOOL – JULY 2015

CHANGING MY MIND

The man who tried to stay

The Gentleman Castaway

The Picture May Be Sepia

Their Memories

The Pigeon House

Little She

Seeing Stravinsky

The month of Columbus

Seeking Asylum

Twister

Someday

Test Card Screen

The Little Prince

Not watching my watching

REMAINS

Anatomical

MULTIPLE CHOICE

Sable

The Beautician’s Shop

Desert music

SOUND CHECK

Automa Mortis

Why I Dream About Dirt and Seed

Grain of sand

Outside Keflavik

Retreat

FIGUREHEAD

You Can Lie Down

THE LOLLY STICK SPIKE

The Line

Nebraska Territory, 1853.

No Going Back

Eternal Driver

Interpretations

ROCK

Einstein’s Brain

MANIFESTATIONS OF YOURSELF IN MY HEAD

Easy Road

HOW?

To feel cold on a beach on the hottest day of the year

He Lies in Oak

crabs

Brother

I Love You With All My Brain

escalators in glass buildings

This is my frame

Tongue/ Gusto

AMERICAN FIELD

Traces

Petrified

A chuckle. A dip. A crack.

When Each Meal is a Millennium

The last straw

Easter Seafood Fetish

Chasing Ladders

Will someone please answer some questions for me about my bicameral brain?

The reluctant Argonaut

Remnants

Enough

An apology in my fluorescent pink bra

right half

We Wheat

Broth

Girl

In Their Shells

The spark

Last Supper

I’m Full

Reality

Crosshatched

The Remains of a Summertime Party

Did you know?

TABLE 15

After Life

AN EMPTY BOWL.

Crush Shells

Blessed by this zest for life

Ocean of Grass

Walnuts Sit on Top Of Walnut Whips Don’t They?

Friday Night in Hades

A Ghazal on Lines

It’s not brain surgery

Abandoned

Lines of marks (after Kandinsky)

Bas-Relief

Red and Yellow

“All my Paintings are grey” – A One to One with the Artist Alan Charlton

The Recipe

Infinite Cortex

Essentially Eaters

Metaphoric

A Ghazal on Easter

Brain Chemistry

Last Supper

Tell Nothing To Anyone

The Brain

gentle lady

Re: past

Intersections

Graph

Monocoque reuptake inhibitor

Half

Skies Love Lines

Brains For Tea

Shame in the City

It’s a No Brainer !!

Cross-hatch

PSYCHEDELIA

Captive

Life Without

Aftermath

Opening of the Exhibition

I’m Where?

The Birthday Dinner

May 8th 2015

the sudden quiet

WHAT WE SAY GOES EVEN IF WE ARE WRONG – SO THERE!!

The sound of her own voice

Good Meal

The folds of you

Enough

Aftermath

Mama

Glistening rope

Misplaced appetite

The Birthday Wish

Mistaken Lobster

Sticky

The Brain’s ‘To Do’ List

Tetrametrical Stanzas, One Pair Thereof

Digested.

The Brain Ghazal

Synapses Point

In Collaboration with

creative writing

After death

Materials

After everything is said and done

The Best We Can Do

Logy

Last Resort

Summer 05

We Humans

Operating system

Fancy and Imagination

A Portuguese Package Holiday

RESOLUTE FRIENDS

The central processing unit is a myth

A Feast of Tongues

Half-full

Ginger

Donkey’s Years

SUPPER

Intuit

I was a unicorn once

Broken Chalice

Biscuits and Drawings

she comma he

A White Don

Scrunched

Friends with Benefits

Do Not Trust the Donkey

My Pineal Body

Glue

Silverware Makes White Noise

Donkey

Cape/yellow

The Fruits Of The Sea

FINISHED

Blink

Brain

A shark comes to dinner

Sodden

And This is Where We Find Ourselves Today

Red Saloon

The boy’s first drink

Getting my head around it

Quiet In The Jar

Waiting for You

Authority

HORSE LATITUDES

Such a sexy mine mind girl

A Mouthful of Wasps

We can be bought and sold…

MANY HEADS BUT NO BRAINS

Somewhere between Poll Nam Partan and Cape Sounion

Anxious Donkey

ELEVENSEAS IN TOOTRING

Life Line

Off Peak

My Brain

Private Cloud

ICON

CO-OPERATION

Closeout

Just a Donkey

The Donation

Wrong names

Motel Paralysis

Letter to The Times

Liberation

Waiting for Summer

Pink talks

Vacancy

GUIDED MISSILE

Maria had a donkey

On Arncliffe crags

Donkeys Don’t Belong in Housing Estates

Brain in Suspended Animation

I Say a Little Prayer for You

I Know of a Place

Pour Concrete

a Lonely Monologue

I Buy a Lipstick

Barren

Jack

Half-haves and half-have-nots

the sun creases downwards in the corner of my eye

Losing Color

Paint Lead

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