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Writing toward an imaginary son

Mise-en-Scene

Ekphrasis

Frozen in Time

A WRITER’S BLOCK

Made Up

Plastic World

The Red Engine

High Hopes

HEADING FOR MIST

CLOSE YOUR EYES

Painting on the Walls of a Prison

Rodeo’s Not My Thing

Who Are They Anyway?

Little Donkey

Still Another View of Life

Knock knock

First memory

The Transformation

COLLECTIBLES

They Never Gave Me One Inch

SHE HAD THE LAST WORD

The Donkey’s Tale

The Room

A Grotesque Narrative of Lipsticks

Lopsided

Anywhere but here

Reflections

The deep end

Redhunters

Only You Can Carry Your Burden

Gloss

Make My Day

Counting Donkeys

Carefree

THE GUN ON YOUR LIPS

Someone Else’s Stag

Freedom of Movement

Wish You Were Here

A Singular Transformation

Excerpt from the Fortean Times, 26 March 3143

picture a donkey contemplating an empty swimming pool

Can Red Lipstick Make You Braver?

Cheesy

Donkey doodle hay day kinda ride.

Domino

Gloss

Galilee

Donkey Please Stay

The mask I wore

Ride me, ride me

Subscription to Vogue (Cut Up)

The Fall

Lines

An unsolved mystery of quantum mechanics

ON SIDING WITH THE UNALIGNED

Knock knock

Close

Nine dart finish

Too much

This fire is matt

Dead Scales

Heel Drags

Fake Plastic Highway

Fast Feud

Silent Lips

Please, come

The Last Leg

THE CHRYSLER AND THE EMPIRE STATE

Crossing the line

Stuck

Wherever It May Go

Pink

In a rush

Lips

WHALE

BUYING GIFTS FOR YOUNG WOMEN

SKETCH OF AN ABANDONED JOURNEY

Parallels of Time

POEM FOR ISAAC

Towards The Penal Colony

Replicants

Lines to Follow

Limbs Anonymous

Sunday Best

Wanting Doesn’t Make Promises

Lipstick Kiss

The seven stages of the life of Mary Elizabeth Arden-Quant

Roll

A FAIR EXCHANGE

WHAT THE MORTICIAN SAID TO ME AS WE LOOKED AT MY GRANDMOTHER IN HER COFFIN

my colours

Moisture Renew, Lasting Finish

DIVA

What’s in a name?

A Character Lament

Munkhbayar

The Rainforest

Coney Island cap

Shadows

What Happened in the Hold

Over the Limit

Moonlit Road

night: pixelosis

Colgate

Circles and Lines

Distraction

Crossing the line

Christopher

Hungry Like The Wolf

Mountain as Molehill

Beta

Yarn

Keeping It Simple

See you better my dear …

Fog…?

The Encroachers

An Echo

A Lost Cause

Destiny

Defeat My Existence

What Can Be Forgotten

In white traces…

The Wolf’s Degenerates

Bad Habit

ARRIVAL

NO OVERTAKING

Wolfman

Blinders

She-Wolf

Prospects

sometimes you dream of wolves, not foxes

Legs That Go On Forever

Lost in Woods

Found

I TYPED VIS

THE PARABLE’S PARALLEL LINE

Not Really

Cables

South ave

That Last Trip

UNTITLED

A Prayer for the Aeons to Come

Species

Wings

Rhea’s Revenge

Don’t Allow Your Mind to Wrestle With the World

The End of the Road

Sleigh Bells and Alarms

The Lone Wolf

The Ark Secretary

Gateway

SEEING, KNOWING

Solitary Vixen

From Polonius In His Dark Heaven To Ophelia, Pulled From The River

Shame

The Path of Least Resistance

LONE TWIN

Dress Rehearsal

Cynic: “None but the lonely heart”

Patronage

Vapor trails

Prospero’s Daughter

Diverging Lines

Greener Grass…

Ocean to drop

final strand

Ballad of the Lone Wolf

How to evict a wolf

Alfonso and Thessaly

The Digested Read of Us

Perspicacious

Reason-less-on-life-less-reason

return

Love

Sightings In Secret

Over the mountains

Sometimes My Words

Pathways

Evening Pineapples

Shadows of the Showgirl

ABOVE THE GREAT DEFILE

Those Two lines

Untitled

Elemental

AUT VINCERE AUT MORI

At bay

‘This Mountain’s Mine.’

My Wolf

Walking Out Together

the germinator

Mountain Man

You who stood at the edge of a fairy tale

One and Other

The Last of Our Kind

Lycanthrope

Water and Empty Space

Hard scents

The Mirrors have Eyes

Said the Rock

Benetton Launches New Wise Umbrella

Psyche

Return from High

The Jedi Master

Unknown Grandfathers

Crazy wolf

Call

Mr Newson

Are you the wolf who stood at the edge of a forlorn fairy tale?

payback

Illusion And The Truth

Cartwheels

Mist Carriage of Thanatos

I Am Mountain

Waiting

A_ or N_

Horizon

No More Sweating In The Dark

Let the Games Begin

Literary Sanctuary

Freeze Frame

The Burden

WOLF: FIFTY SHADES

Petrifaction

Sea Mark

M A Canter

The Valley of Sorrows

He waits

Lost Shadows

free fall (a haibun)

Stone People

Dusty

Losing the game again

Fishing

The Glorious Knitted Cape of Jessica Swarfega

Wolfdom

He is Her

Untitled

Kincairn

The Sentinel

Accompaniment

if

The Quality of Santa

a thought otherwise

REFLECTION

Untitled

Is It Here?

I spy with my little eye

In my weakness

Enamel Coronation – a tanka

Sisyphus

A life measured in a tear

Caul

Midlife crisis

Waiting

Portrait of Couple With Dog

Saturday 18th September, 1977

The zzz of crackle and distortion

Dry Fountain

The Animal Whisperer

Scoria

Two lives

Him

line of sight

Beware my friends

NOT ALOUD

Guilty

Forgiven

Well Groomed

Distant outlook

Charles Darwin Looks Down At Her And Her Isotopes

Strike A Pose

Summit Stance

SONNET

What the heck

Prophet of Mine

Science sucks

A Dog’s Life

Trip to Brighton

Pilgrim in a cloak

Wait

if I have wronged you

BOUFFANT

The Camera Never Lies

Best in Show

How much is that doggy on the table?

Spare me the victim discourse

Shorn

An Acquired Taste

The Stalactite Song

A lil’ bit of night music

Time and his Muse Sheeba

Our Saviour

american hair, american dreams

A LIFE TO SWAP

Crufts, cupping

He said his name was Dan Druff

Oh hair

Peculiar, indeed

The Blue Room

Turn off boy

Sink

The logic of leaving

What she lost

Together, sing like birds in a cage

erase

HER CHOICE

SYCORAX WHOOPS

Now that they’re gone

Her footprint

A prayer to Anubis

Floss as if your life depended on it

Claws

Fresh Start(s)

CONFESSION BY NUMBERS

Fluid Dynamics

How much longer?

Carrying water

THE BLUE LADY

dog days out

What you leave behind

Mirror In The Bathroom

PLASTICITY

Bathroom Habits

See view?

Blue

Identify

REVENGE

Oh What a Life

IF ONLY

Sinking

The Toothbrush That Knows the Rules of Engagement

new wave

Mr.Gilbert’s ‘Switcher Over’

THE LESSER EVIL

how not to freak out if you wake up invisible

dear mother

Shape of an Egg

Father

The Cerulean Song

Before us, they remain

He Says

OPEN DOOR

TWINK

Neptune’s Projects: Bathroom Design, quote no 37514

Sometimes a cold blooded murderer

For Show

AUBADE IN SUOMI

For the Sake of a Dog

Himemoana

MAKE UP

The slow rise from sleep

Just one more brush, he kept whispering.

Narrow Road

Analysing Your Brain, And Mine; A Self-Exploration

For sale

Five Years

Black Tattoos

The Library of Tears

Well Suited

Barkin!

Rain drops run my mascara

The Call

Dog Parts

MARÍA LLORÓ / BLUE SKY TEARS

We Learn by Watching

What did you expect?

Clean is Me…

Pobrecillo Tam

Second Place

Untitled

Checkmate

Close

Standing still

The Waiting

THE MOMENTS BEFORE

HERMIONE THE HUMMINGBIRD’S DREAM

Escape

I Only Arrived

THE EXITS ARE CLEARLY MARKED…

Tectonic Love

That’s the way the Rhodians do it

The Note

Pristine

Things to pack

Playing the Game

I do not like this

Meta Madness

Under A Cloud

Transformation

Knight to King’s Bishop

Fail-Safe

Wrapped Up Tight

You document with images

Grey

Imposter

After The Game The King And The Pawn Go Into The Same Box

Push

Peace

I’ll Be Back Soon

RELAX AND TRAVEL

(Letter from Richard 1 to Saladin)

What I Whisper

I smell lemons

Not Coming

I Promise

Not Still Life

The Mirror that Stared

Now Let’s See if Honest Words Can Be

COMING ROUND

URIZEN – FIRST DRAFT

The sea, that through which one can see the heavens

Middlegame

The way you returned

Pawn

Toilet Break

About a garden, but slightly divagating. And also (don’t include this when you publish) do the words in the title count? And one last thing, can you help me by sending an email to an estate agency? It’s about a garden and a locked door. They won’t give me the key and they insist there is no garden. I have no one left to turn to.

Sophie

Before School

Kelpie

Oh life… what a game

Mobilized Clan Stop

Play Me a Sad Game, Play Me My Life

The Adjudication

Walk with a green man

shhhsh, sometimes

Blood Like Honey

Zugzwang

PORCELANOSA

Knight and day

That Blue

Waiting for another Higgs Boson Particle

Arcadian

Vive La Reine: Long Live the Queen

Long Gone

8pm

Vanitas

Voyage in the Dark

A Fresh Slice

In 1975

RULES OF THE GAME

Listen

Look Again

Fir trees do not grow here

If Silence Could Break Ice

Supernatural Men

methods

Two worlds collide

Living Doll

Opening Gambit

Green slug ritual

Listen to the Madman

“One More Game, Alright?”

A Postcard

A Secret Coffer

What Your Sister Saw

SYLLABLE OF DOLOUR

The Return To Heaven

Mind Over Matter

Where’s Magic?

Inside the Belly of the Architect

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Memory Chest

I save all your silences

For the Sake of Keepsake

A Separation

the after party

HOOLYWOOD

The Weight of Matter

Michelangelo’s Advice To An Apprentice.

Sweet pyramid

Pandora

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Bitter Oranges

The key

The Trunk

SHAPES

An Ocean of Lost Things

Had I Known

Midnight mourning

The Escapologist

Bittersweet

Wunderkammer

The Best is Yet to Come

Nice Try Doyle

Feathers

The Edge of You

The Lie of the Land

Could it be

This is It

Replacement Mountain Climbers with Secrets for Servants

Hid it well

Cusp of Sleep

Cold Shoulder

thirteen ways of looking at your memory of me

Pressing Petals

DRUNK AGAIN

Despedida

Other

Hindsight

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