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Time Travel Incident Report

Dear Citizen —

At the Fork of the River

But What About the Horse?

I Know the Opposing Page

proffered

If only

Erno’s house on the hill

offerings

YOUR HANDS AWAY

a knight’s tale

Obsessed with Knights Much?

THE HAND

False prophets

That Falling Feeling

Dear Spectre

Don Quixote in Lidl

Into Kabiur’s hand

Postal boy

In a continuum

Taxonomy of Identity

The Postmaster

Kaleidoscope

Ghazal of colors with a free monostich

Like

The Rosy Hopped Warning

Conquered

Stamp

Rescue

Ald Hyp Sceei

Rules for grandparents when embarking on imaginative play with a seven-and-a-half-year-old

THE WEDGE

Quioxte Quixano

The Colour of Plastic

From Violet Blossoms

Bowing to Experience

Head Over Heels: A Sijo Sequence

The Boxed Life

Capturing a Rainbow – a prose poem

Gray city in front of me

Knight Blues

Rosy Glow

Twist and shout

Comeuppance

Wintarmanoth Falls

Party Shoes

The Fight

Laughing at my despair

Craft

Clicking Together

After the fall

In event of accidental handholding

Horse’s patootie

Knightvision

Hold

It Happens To All Of Us

The Last Time I Rode a Horse

Pantoum-ime

Dear Mom

Legend of Arabella the Great

THE MESSENGER

A Timestamp on Transfiguration

The Knights Tempera

A Manual to Address the Most Crucial Element in the List of Shortages

WHERE OPHTHALMOLOGY FAILED TO SEE

Infinity Bouquet

Gangurru

Prodding the Ulcer

I could knit a beanie

Prime Directive

Surpanaka’s swag

transference

Afterglows of Sentience

The World Is Flat

A Foreign Post

MAGENTA RANG

Wrapping task

Delivery Notification

The Mess of Mindfulness

Bertie Junior

Lost

Fidget obelisk

How he loved violet

How to Erase a Rainbow

Slapped

Excavating

Ouch

Kinfolk

Exotic does not mean beautiful?

Everpink

The Synaesthete’s Diary

A Map, Elaborate

Our Tree

All Hallows’ Eve

A handful of Magic

Battle Royal

Morning Letter

Perfect little life

The Eyes Have It

Not All Balls Are Round but That’s Ok

Winter Sunshine

Nothing new

return policy: shame

Squeeze

Facts known but little understood

We Are Part of the Puzzle

Toy Totem

Catching What Falls

Rubik’s Cube 🧩

Before the Beginning

The witch considers her three transformed memories

Claw Hog

Indeterminate in Autumn

You offer

Imagine that

Phenomenon

Early Morning

YET, TO

Ruthless

Of Distances

The Other Side of Us

Transit

Kitchen Observation

Cups of other References

An abundance of caution

New Ways

My Huge Son Floats Above the City

A Love Story in Pantoum

The Messenger

Innocence Adrift

Anonymity

Squishy little dreams

Before Connotations

What Shines Through

Totem

The Pink City at Height

Bargain

Holding Tight

I came to say

Down on Fifth

Galaxy Map

Dear Me/You

Dear Earnest…

Lying to myself again

Paper Planes

Some plastic headed aliens

Curious Chemistry

Worship

Upset

Here

Through the Purple Portals of My Mind

Roo Arrgh Urroo (I have a bad feeling)

Christmas Magic

Strength, Vulnerability, Chaos

Is This The Only Truth?

Shattered Glass Paintings

The Unexpected

Mint In Box

Piling Up Parts

Sacred Geometry?

First Class Mail

Blind Greed

Nostalgic Autumn

The Sculpture

Into the broken aura of a prodigal painting(er)

alienated autumn

This is the poet’s inner monologue in a digital age

The Third Eye

Toys-r-us

Manifest Delusion

An Offering

Just One More Look.

Missive from the past, a message to our future

Unbalanced

Emerging

Superimposed Memories

Laughing Drops

ABSTRACT COURIERS OF THE INDISTINGUISHABLE TRAMWAYS

Irreverent Grief

Dreaming as a silhouette of prayer

Down Under

What Color Are You?

Sleight of Hand

Colorful

Postscript

Dream Is The Promised Land

Zephyr

Game of Life

A New Hope

ceremony

Transitioning tonight

A Minute, A Lifetime

E.T. the Extraordinarily Terrestrial

Purple Haze

HOLDING THE TELL

Reckoning

Kept Up By You

Chromatism

Birds of a Feather

Colors in the Air

What we do, and what we don’t, in the shadows

Insurance of Imagination

Totems of the Past

Being Served

Non-alien

The Eyes

Stuck with no more than spit

Purge

Like Father Like Son

Life is Three Faced

Say What You See

The day we divided the world

Postage Stamp

Express

Chewbacca, ET, Little Green Man

BROKEN SLEEP

The Mother & The Dream

Art

Dream creatures

A Magenta Forest

Notes from an Archaeologist 2,000 Years in the Future on the Recent Discovery of an Ancient Artifact

The Tiger is Silent

Stamped

Untitled

Extract from a compendium of advice given in dreams

how to denounce your parents

Where’s your head at?

According to Zhuangzi

PRIME TIME

My nose and me

Neither Here Nor There

First Class

Night gifts

Letter to my Sixteen Year-Old Self

In Between Black and White is Where I live

Runaway

Portrait of the Young Boy as a Young Boy

Man and Boy

Bobbing Gaud

The Club

Letters from a younger self

blast off or balance

Left Alive

Pink Kangaroo

Aliens among the pure

Are You There?

teeter / totter tipple/ tip

A SOMEBODY ONCE

Anatomy of a good day

Tales we win

Paying Homage

Letters from Little Boys

We are all aliens

Antidote

To Boldly Go…..

Open It

UNIFORM

A Dusk of Reasoning, a Curtailing and a Quickening

Futureproof

Special Delivery

DAYS IN A LONER’S DREAMS

Take Someone Off the Hook

Invasive Species

Summons

Shadowlight

Marmalade

Your Country Needs You

Rose-tinted glasses?

Pink Days

On Big Guys and Big Dreams :: Always Look Up

Train Thoughts

NIGHT OWLS

I haven’t walked on grass yet

Post Boy/Poster Boy

Alien Invasions

The letter

Forecast for tomorrow

LGMs

Shedding

Eternal Night

Your Third Eye

Sending the message

A Balance of Minds

The Great Melting Pot

Special Cocktail Ball – An Invitation

Naphthalene Regret

Machines

Dream Leopard

One woman went to mow

The Faces of Love

A Golden Shovel After Omar Musa’s Leopard Made of Midnight Clouds

Postcard From The Bedroom

Connections and The End of a Railway Line

Mind the Gap

In My Dreams

You Are … I Am

Sunset Curtains

Ten Thousand Reasons Why

I draw a dream

How Do You Read Life’s Totem Pole?

Bad match

Astro Feel

Departure

The Library of Things

Leopards and Midnight Clouds

Quiet cat

Playtime

TIMETABLES BE DAMNED

The Eighth Day

Picture This

Last Stop on a Nameless Line

Night Journey

The Offering

Close Encounters

War

Nature Deletes its Social Media Profiles

Cyberpunk blues

RUNAWAYS

Cut a Lawn Cut a Lawn Cut a Lawn Cut a Lawn

Surfing a different storm

to hide in plain sight

Light

Strange Objects

Chewie Meets Bettina

A Friend for the End of the World

Raw-bone

MY POETRY TURNING GREY

THE FLAMES OF HIS VERSE

Light Fantastic

Triangles

Martian Mash

A boy poses as a wayfarer of this world

Politics make me dream of drinking vodka laced with cyanide

Poetry on the underground

Within a Dream, Another

Riding the Metro

Postman

A Case of Night Terror, and Tygers in Starlight

Stuck at the Station

How to use ‘unfriend’ as a verb

In Dreams

I am not in this Picture

Stones for Loaves

foundations

Self-Portrait with three alien heads

Three Of Moons

Mower / Military Pack, after Philip Larkin’s ‘The Mower’

Dating history

Filter Moonlight

Illusion

Soul Traveller

Triptych

In my night ocean

metro/polis

Dream Landscape, With Teeth

A Balancing Act

insomnia

The Mower

RISK AVERSION

DREAM OF LIFE

Mountfield showboat

the heathen testament

Don’t you remember? They are where we come from

Moonless

Self propelled

pièce de résistance

LOST AND FOUND

The End of the Line

The weaver

Utopian Dystopian Future Vision

Ma Lady (Or Prey with Me)

A Rumination On Where To Fit

In the Middle

How to take a lawnmower home on the tube

From The Clouds

Cotton Candy and Purple Punch

ROSE-TINTED GLASSES

Rush Hour

Have mower, will travel

And the Clouds

Collage

C-Train

Adolescence Has No Need

The top-half of the moon

Quantum Entanglement

Red Ox Staring

Dreaming of a Midnight Moon

Lookalike

The Future is Wow

The Heavens are my Domain

IT SHATTERS

A LIGHT TO WHAT I MIGHT BECOME

DREAMING OF GENIES

Wood, Words, Worlds

Twenty Years After the Supreme Court Squelches Environmental Regulation

Empowered

Once

Mountain Myth

Love seeks Summation

So I fell asleep and dreamed

Limbo

Grin & Bear It

In chiaroscuro

holy cow

Grin and Bear It

The Midnight Leopard

When

Souvenirs

The Truth of What Happened to Dandy Meters

Away from it all

A Taurus Moon

Wire Less

the tiger

The Midnight Leopard Spots Me

Visuals and verses

DREAM ON

Mine

Where the Heart Isn’t

Asterion

Wrapped in a Sleek Spotted Coat of Power

disturbance

Dream Amnesia

THE ENQUIRING EYES

Five Minutes on the Central Line

My Life

Recollections in (& of) the Rearview Mirror

The Chase

Lost Property

Oceans Cease

Looking Forward

an ode to the city

Tomorrow is today’s dream (after Khalil Gibran)

Rootstock

I, HUMAN?

BIFURCATIONS

(im)possibilities

Alive / Dead

I dreamed I was a leopard

Cut your losses and leave

Do you see?

You Reap What You Sow

To Be a Garden

On Prisms, Spectrums, and All That (Rainbow) Jazz

Bovine Dreams

Lost between two languages

Leopard Falls at Midnight

Wordless beast

Burning Bridges and Building Barricades

Ode to Rest

Do You Remember . . .?

Snow Leopard

Coupling

Panthera Stardust

lawn-care

Surface

Platform

Clip Clop Oblivion

Dystopia Subway Train

Cherry blossom at nightbreak

Well kept secret in neon

Clouds / Cloud Leopards

Doors Open

Nightscape

The things parents do…

It is time

Inch By Inch

The Plan

Harrowing Underground

Dreamscapes

BLACK AND WHITE DREAMING

One Last Lawn

On The Road

Semantics of a Curious Mind

Abracadabra

On the slide

A whale of a dream

last night, 4:54 am

23.5°

The Other Approach

The Wall

Whale Song

Trip the Light Fantastic

Uncertain Architecture

In the Middle of the Night

Don’t Fall

Silent

Stuff of Dreams

No Souls And Clear Glasses

On the Prowl

An Intellectual Leopard Learns How to Dream

Subway Held Hostage By Lawnmower

The Metro Station

A FIN-TASTIC TAIL

Presumptuous Deity

Cut Down

RETRO TIME

But where is Sleep?

She-wolf and Son-cub

Before tomorrow blows away

Once A Night’s Dream

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