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I dreamt

This Tribute

The Showgirl

faint.

Nightblind

The Black of Beyond

T & Oh! Map

Lovers

Detritus

Restless

Last orders

That Night

Shoulder to Shoulder

BINARY

The Cartographer

white

Absolute Intersection

Good nights

Turn

ABOUT THOUGHTS AND SKIN

Don’t Look Back

Three

Shared awakening

When His Back Is Turned

The Space Between

COME TO BED

Syria

A Love Lost

Insecurity

Thinking Of Excuses While I Wait For Him To Get Here

I’ll Remember This

Prairie Rose

Target Practice

The Lone Guardian

“A Horse with No Name”

What the Vulture Saw

Pillows

Eulogy

Desire Drowning in Desert

So began

Testament

Oh, The Fame

The Aquariums

Welcome to the Badlands

The Last Experiment

nurse on the plastics ward

HOMER

She Lived Hard and Fast and Could Never Love Me

Landmark

Paper Crosses

1460 Wakefield and Shrewsbury

Ragtag Rat Pack

Another Broken Ring Pull

Infinities of faces make a sphere

An act of duty

THE BUBBLES

TODAY

Unnameable, Grudging, Vengeful Destruction.

he

Target Practice

Post image

Holding the note

surfaces for fiction

her heart

Life’s Theatre

Deification blues

GWEN’S CARE PLAN IS UNDER CONSTANT REVIEW

Black Velvet

Desert End

Puffed Up in the Desert

Under A Blue Sky

Lost

The Party

The Man in the Matchbox

Re: Monday 2pm

Atom for atom

Misplaced Bullets

Darling…

A Bud Light

Bleeding Love

Trading Post

KA2

Signs of Life

The Factory Explosion

4 Forms Cast in the Same Mold (?) & a Whiff of Tobacco

THE SHORT STRAND

Tableau Vivant

Keeping the Birds in the Air

In the Plaza on the 16th July 2014

Routine and a Rifle

averse elegy

Thinking About Fred Astaire

Mr Tilt

lila beth

a juicy target

A Brace of Sleepers

Now you see it now you don’t

When You Don’t Wanna Go Straight

Til we tumble

Birds

Dunnet

Songbird Soup

MH17: In Memorial

How to Stare into Space

0702

Perfect

The Babel of Birds

The Mysterious Chord

Pietà

In a flap

s/t [for lack of an opportune inspiration]

Third from the bottom

Collecting the last papers

Impressions of Death

Warm Songbird Salad

Quatrain

(con)TEXT

Hibernation

I create a storm

As Intended

They’re Just Sleeping. It’s Okay.

When the Night Birds Glow

Dead Feathers, Dead Fathers

Come closer, if you dare.

Gasp

The battle of the birds

Awake

Still Life

Unlikeliness

Perfect Symmetry

A Still Life in Tiers

Forfeit

The Game and the City

Amsterdam (a true story)

Dueling With Dad

Heaped

Kinships

Collections

Falling Back

Three Finches and a Starling

The Hunt

Review

Baptism

YES

The Bird Charmer

Blank Slate

Borders Hill

Birdsong

Dear Dodo

Whistle

PREPARATION

Skinny dipping at Lady Falls

BREATHE

Ornithologists, Cringe

Danny Boy

Artemisian

Not quite a gasp: a poster.

Best Friends

Vergeltungswaffen

Under the Constellation of Virgo

Bath Time

Dearest

Sensory Deprivation – or something like it

Reaper

Gaia the Huntress

I see you

Splash

The song of ancestral treachery, paid back double, in arrears.

Difficult Second Album

Rise

Young Farmer

Capricorn

Scream

ICE PRINCESS

BETH

Still Life

circular folly

SPRING

The Gun

Chinebaba

Rifle Through

White Truth

Out there

Snap Shot

Justifiable Homicide

lost

Backfired or Backcombed kinda day

Hannah the Huntress

the trainline is damaged at Dawlish

Ritual

Do not cross a Scots girl, even if you come from Texas

Symmetric fire

After You’ve Gone

Fiery desperation

Roussalka

Suicide by Light

The Washer Woman

I talk to the Birds (or, Jesus and the Eagle)

Shiva In Plaid

LA MASCHERA PIU BELLA

Love Poem #3

Daughter

Sing a Song……….

For the birds

from Wheat

The Man Who Feeds The Crows

The Milk Room

My Findings

Untitled

Natural History

Two birds, one stone.

The Widow

Fire

Anatomy of breathing

Pie

origami

Daddy

Beauty and the Beast

It exists, it is extant, but we can never tell.

A Week Shy of the Harvest

Paper

Frail and fragile

Our Deep White Space

Lily

Grain

Sheaths of Wheat

triangle

Never Is an Awfully Long Time

transmitted on a petal

First Lives

Inanimate Objects

more mars to your bedside

Scatter

Chaff.

plaint

The Bed

fold over my left side

The Cynic

The Project

Making papyrus

Paper flowers

Fingers

Five Friends Flying Free

Mortal Things

Death is just a circus trick

To Preserve

Folk songs we have sung

The Dried Thing I Picked With Mummy

Immortelles

The Architecture of Flowers

and I’m still not coping

divided flight

Art Prep

Rifle (n./v.)

For as long as she lived she lived

The Arranger

Geochelone spp. (EX)

Be Conscious of Your Fins

Scutiform

Use me

Shell Key

The Naturalist’s Wife: A Letter

containing passages from dictionaries; along with the shell or husk; along with the membrane

To Let

Culled

THE SKULL, THE SHELL, ENDEAVOUR’S HOME

Soft Head

An Artist’s Study of Birds

The State of Us

Presents

Flowers

This, Too, Is Life

Flight Patterns

I’LL GET BERNARD TO GIVE YOU A CALL

There was an old lady…

Laying out

What the sheep thinks of the sky

Feathered Cairn

Bird Feeder Blues

September 1940

Waymarker

An Avicide

The Door Closes

when in doubt whether

Genus

Soft Inside

80,000 is just a number

Why a shell is not smooth (specimen 13523)

Whilst Waiting

***NEWSWIRE LATEST***

Testudo

The Carapace

43 Shell Lane

The Monday Monologue

Daughter

Tera

We love our home, slowly.

Natural History

I Dreamt I was a Tortoise

(extinct) ok

Motion Sickness

Tortoise shell

Affirmations

Extinct

Souvenir

Skullcap

Hollow

I am ready

Skull

Origins

Claim Your Clam

book hustlers

Poised with a willing cast

Don’t tell me to die

BUT NEVER DOUBT I LOVE

Purified

24th February 2014

Stare-&-Stare

time heals but time travel is impossible

Waterbaby

Die For Me

Forever

Shell line

Pardon me

Fowl play

Rebel

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