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Across Town

Laurel’n’Hardy

In the Midnight Hour

Siblings

In The Middle

sourness

Transparent

Green Light for Go

Tunnel of Love

The Reactor

to let the light in

Waiting for the train that never came

Me and my mannequin

Becoming Sundials

At the Station, Going Nowhere

The grass cutter

what goes around

Camouflage

Metro Voyeurs

A Pay Cheque Away

Heading Downtown

Abduction

Against a Wall

Lake Friday

The Lime Green El Train

GLIMPSE

June 30th

The Unconquered Dead

An amateur gardener for Mrs Daffodil

Neon Days

Doors Closing

Green Hue

On the Move

Edgelandia

Queen Liz

The Better Devils of our Nature

Blue Seed

Evolution

Museum 2184

Settled Ache

The Moving

Ease of Handling

dressed as a dragon

Holding the Wall

Where the Grass Grows Tall

Mixed Media

Komodo

Simulation

Still

How to Lie to Children

good neighbours make – after Frost

Traveling in Place

The Aching Heart

THIS PLACE WAS HOME

Decomposition

In The Dancery

Melting into Lime-light

Descenders

Berlin I roam

Ophelia

Tunnelling

Retelling

Angst (Station Song)

thick-skinned

Untitled – after The Poetic Edda

Tyregarten

Overloaded

Promotion

Walk alone

Shards

The Silliness Test

We dye our cow-coats fox-red in the constellation Hercules

Ten Feet Above The Grass You Will Live

The Bag, The Box and The Lawnmower

Translation

THE ARRIVAL

Metamorphosis

Realizations

Memories of Blue

Late-style funk dancing

a wall of one’s own

The Architect

GESCHAFFT

Not Long Now

GODS OLD & NEW

Round and Round

Flexing

On Train Tracks & Tracked Trains

Hey Diddle Diddle

A world remade

Green Light, Go!

Railway Sleepers

Nocturne in D minor

Take Only What You Can Carry

Weekend in Berlin

Hanging Out

Change Up World

Always on Parade

Allotment

We Feel Nostalgia for the Strangest Things

Souvenirs

Asunder

Riding on the Circle Line

The Tire

HOLY COW

City Moonscape

The Pursued

An April Fool

END TIMES

Starting Over: Neighborhood Compost

A Noble Presence

Subway Short Cut

In The Flow

Mysterious Green

A Garden Between Walls

Prayer for the world

Last Stop

Layered

Distorted

Arise

Carbuncle

Uncle Hans

Unstuck

Mind the gap

Ulysses must have stopped here

I grieve for the water I lost – I am longing for the sea I must have

Distractions

Under Ground

Down the Tubes

The Protectors

Moving On

Phenomenology

Green Heaven

It Wasn’t That She Minded

An Ox Dreams

The Journey Continues

Compost

Our Future and My Past: A Double Etheree Sequence

Assemblage

Iguana

The Final Recipe

This Journey

Stand Clear?

The Certain Old Man

Ruins of Nature

Ebay item #389551401173

Out The Window Pane

Pandemic

Cycles

Red Wound Shadow

Transcendence

The Eye of Horus

Gravity, sausages, and 9 to 5

The Reaper of Mountfield

Candescent Twins

In the Wake of Knowing

Detritus delights

Paradise Reclaimed

Ophthalmology of the Third Kind

blue and green

Calypso

Actus Contritionis

THE BREAKING

Clearing Litter

Falling out

Where it Began

Work-in-Progress (w.i.p.)

Hearts Courage

Another Offering

DEFIANT TO THE END

Post-Traumatic

Generation Transmutation

the earth is red

Made by Nature

Beautiful decay

Desire

A god for something

Escape

Lean On

Peace

Juggling

BORN INSIDE A VOLCANO

Locked horns

My Home is All There

Posed

Olympia

Red Sea

a reflection :: on hoops & happenstance

Crossing

HOLY VITASTA – THOU ART MY BLOOD

i wear my heritage proudly

Beauty

Man On The Moon

Your Homecoming

Open Return

Your Story Sings Through Me

Harper’s Ferry in June

Promontory

Waiting for Neo

A Repurposed Spaces

Never Having to Say You’re Sorry

Backbreaking Wait

Have you said goodbye to the plague?

Coo at the End

counterparts

Red rock…

Kommune 1

The Wild State

Spurs of the moments

Kompost in Any Language

Murder Betwixt Parallel Universes

Grasp the Gasp

Narcissus in Red

My Palette

Gravity

Green Heart

Born of Lake Texcoco’s Womb

Berlin Express

Collecting the Colors

BIG RED

Showstopper

APOCALYPSE

Mirror Image

Visiting Hour

Gastropods

Night Gardener

In limbo

Ruano’s Matter

Light

The World of Reality Has Its Limits

Where Will You Go Lords and Ladies?

Enduring a City

Playing The Game

Poster Boy

School Trip to the Old World

In Memory of Tante H

Holocaust Eclipse

Starting Tomorrow

What You See, I See

The Altar

Holy Highland Cow

History simplified

In Its Weary Days

Portrait, Lights and Camera

THE BULL OF WALL STREET

DARLING

Down The Urban Drain – In Search of Hope

TERMINAL

This is What I Learned About Motherhood.

Composting lives

Hodge Podge

If it were I

I aimed too high aimed too low (into a perfect blue)

No Plans

Fortune

Prankster

‘Quirky’

#justiceformotherearth

On the other side

Wolves in Capes

pandemonium overload

Cow Forlorn

The Salamander

Today, I don’t feel like going out

The Red Man

In nowhere

Still We Stand

Arni Dharma

The In Between Place

Glass

What Goes Around

Graffiti

Hummingbird

Bean Caointe

A Hummingbird by a Lady

Unfrozen

Feminine Principles

respiration

Eolian and Gray

A voice that only the night can hear

Utopia

Things grow here

Winged Art

Generations

Sugarbird

The Visit

Collages of Death

inside the gatekeepers house

Noteworthy Songs of Humming Birds

Logical

Cursed Cows

Community Compost

Letter from a world that did not end

Caracole

I Rise

on magic gardens & corner lots

waiting for the bus

Softer Focus

Borders

Geschafft You

Lake Retba

New Beginnings

Summer at Nana Putnam’s Place

And the sky is a threaded fish hook

Decompose

Deep-Sea

Act of Belief

A Mysterious Maple

BEAUTY

A BREATH OF FORTITUDE

WISHING FOR OTHER

NIGHTMAREVERIE

Bull

Miss Artifice

Therapy Session 1: Family Trauma

Homesick

a slice of life in a third-floor walk-up :: prepped. primped. primed.

Public Health Warning

Vicious Circle

Semi-colon

Nectar

Silk Dance

Hummingbird Cake

Seeing Red

RURAL HOURS

HERE TO HELP

My writerly muse

The Juggler

Still She Sings

I Am Amphibious

Love Letter

Within Without

rāto karābir

Possession

rive/red

Meditating on the Ephemera

Red world order

Hummingbird of the Mind

boundaries

Hummingbird

Catastrophe

Golden

Circles of strength

BUT I CAN’T GO BACK THERE

Saturday 9am

Hummingbirds on the Hudson

magician

Lawn Boy on a Train

Bottle

There Will Always Be Blood

Raw Songs From Red Throats

Buyer Beware

The Banned Russian Olympian

I Am One Of Two Who Know

Page Transparency

Vishy the Lizard

Here you are

Rings of Security

That was then

My Rugged Individualist

Kiss the face of the life

A Hot Kent Day

PLACE OF NO ANGER

Happy Wanderer

Spinning the world backwards

Painted Lady

The Hope of Red-Hooped Reflections

Leavings

Spring Warning

Spicebush Swallowtail

There’s work to be done here

Rural Hours

Taming the butterflies

The way a child sees colours, shapes and words

Wilderness tamed (again)

Gendered

LOST IN SILENCE

Propaganda

City to City

Folded

Waxwork

come as you are

Hope

To a coy mistress

Swallowtail

Icing on the Cake

This Must Be The Place

Preparing to begin

Not even birds

Try a little harder gravity

Plummeting Sparrows

The Nectar of Life

your promise

Hoop Dancer

Scene-Setting Haiku Sequence

Virginian Woman

renewal

Reflecting the zeitgeist

done you are at the neighborhood compost*

THE RURAL HOURS

Like Paper Envelopes

Lithica, Queen of the Bloodstone

The Silver Bough

THE MORNING I WATCH THE RAIN DANCE

Blood Ransom

A Gathering

For Emily Dickinson

Olympic Rings

The Lizard

I Have Never Seen

RING REFLECTIONS OF AN OLDER WOMAN

listen to us

DETRITUS

A hummingbird flew in at my window

Just a Reflection

This Is The Picture (after Peter Gabriel)

Brigantia

We offer shelter

24 fps

Olympian

Cycles

Balls of Fluff

COURAGE IN DARK TIMES

In Any City

Here

red-throated, missing everything

IT RINGS TRUE

Taking Flight

Sipping the Mississippi

The Butterfly Effect

RUBEDO

THE CONSTANT GARDENERS

Sketching the Rural Hours

Like Skin but Inside

Home?

A Copy

My Emancipation

THE PUZZLE

Old Oraibi

Being of Blood

A pretty okay date

Left Behind

The Feeding

Monarch

Reflection

The Gem of Your Life Singing Out

Some Chidiya (birds) are wise

collapse

Singed, brilliant crimson

What the Hummingbird Sees

for this present, a cocoon

Reflections on Aging

Humming

All Worlds Are Connected

The Woman Wore Red

Chrysalis

RURAL HOURS Page 10 Bird of the Day

What this is not

Late or Never

WINDOWS

Argent Annulus

Peacock

Hummingbird’s-Eye View

Survivor

When Monarchs Mistake You For a Tree

ON THE WING: A GHAZAL

Dressed for the Part

pitter patter, pitter patter

Rural Hours By a Lady: An Elegy for My Mother

Chris Chrysalis

Hoops of Flame

Humming bird

A Butterfly Effect

A Red Lady Dancing

Susan Fenimore Cooper

Concerns

Rising above

There are no hummingbirds where I live

Winged Secrets in the Chest

Mindful escapism?

Seal Team

We manage to escape it

Carrying the Mystery

Water-colour wings

Card-sharp

Gulliver’s Wife

Hummingbirds

SECOND SKIN

Phases

Red is for danger

Another, Sure

Notes of a Bird Lover

before i swam

Show us how you hula-hoop

A Land Emergent

Hummingbird Chorus

A Dream Is a Gesture Towards Hope

The Uninhibited Skies

Therianthropy

Notebook

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