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Honest Spots

Statuesque Hoop Dancer

Graffiti, Diffusing in Soup

Gathering of stuttering heart’s to soothe, our weary hurts

One Good Turn

Walpurgis Night

From Birmingham To The Bath

WAR AND BEAUTY

Screen saviour

Returning

A Common Courtship

Dawn

Bar service

Bring me home

Butter Flies

The Little Ones Rise

January

These Butterflies, Souls

Red Throated Humming Bird

The Truth about Selkies

Whistler And The Butterfly

Nature; a long forgotten reprieve

The Weight Ascending Breaks the Air

Forgiveness

I have never

The view from your bath tub in the Cliffs of Moher Resort and Spa

Butterfly Love

My Hummingbird Friend

CAFFEINE RUSH

If change I do

polar opposites

Versions and Visions

Our Turn

Nude walls

Bath Time

Emergence

THE PICTURE IS LOVELY

The Call

Mona Lisa

The Local Color

CLIFFS OF DOVER

The Green Room

Golden Flight

Still Humming

enchanted

Happiness Is Owning a Bookshop

Of Land and Sea

The Abduction of a Forsythia-Yellow Duck

Never in the farthest headlands

The Soul Flies

Enter the Hummingbirds

Wonderful World

Repainted

A Celtic Soak

Monologue (inspired by Emily Dickinson)

MANIKINS

Not Singing

between desire and despair

risings

Saline

Butterfly Wings

Lustre

Rural Hours

You will go down to the sea again

Everywhere everywhere

Bucolic Dust Jackets

Blue

kewpie doll chrysallis (kangaroo valley)…

A Silent Revolution

Goodwill Ambassadors of the Americas

Tidal fair

The Bearable Lightness of Butterflies

The watcher watched

Sea Legs

Glare

Still Life

Happiness

13.1 – Only Half crazy

MUSE(LINGS)

The Bibliophile

hope

Eternal Hope

a gentleness …

Fractured Pastoral

Voyagers

Hummingbirds

Listen To The Birds

Solitude

Who Knew

If I were made of copper

Animal Earth

Panto/mine/horse

Bronze

Calgon

Buckler’s Hard, Hampshire

What The Water Gave Me

Butterfly moment: in-Affect

En Pointe

 

Scraps to Daub a Siren’s Lips

A Hundred Butterflies

Noble Causes, Noble Steeds

 

Horse and Man

 

one summer after we jumped

The Lonesome Boatman

Homing Instinct

Horses for Courses

 

Comfort & the vision of a horse in the night-time

 

into the otherwise

After all, not much at all

Secret routes to the shore

Beyond the Dying Hillock

Frosting

Riding Camp

 

He Would Not Drink From The Well

 

On Comparing Myself to a Butterfly

Inscape

I’d always had a thing

every day a surprise

 

migration

The River

Morning

Like Beauty

Fulcrum

Julia

Painting my Mum’s Nails

You Lived With the Seals

Lessons in Grief: Steering Clear of Horses

 

Agatha and Me

 

Lord Snortington

 

Butterflies

Horsehead

EQ IQ

Growing Through the Cracks

JOY

Wood

Flight of Fantasy

Daughters of the Northern Isles

how to lose oneself :: to age, wear, & polishing

Her Parting Gift

Fresh start

Equus Mexicanus Diaspora

At Least Thirteen

Silent Siren

 

Partner for Life

Flutter-by

Silent Motion

 

GENTLE DRAUGHT FOR LIFE

 

Schmetterlinge

Inscrutable

 

Rhiannon of the Mabinogi

When the wishes do not die

Take A Bath, They Say

 

Bronze Warrior

Consider the Selkie

 

Butter in her eyes

Free and Unharnessed

How to Catch a Mermaid in Four Simple Steps

 

THE GOLDEN PROMISE

Collaboration

I’LL THEN TAKE A LONG BATH EVERY NIGHT

 

Wrapping paper

The Dive

Hold Your Breath As Your Head Goes Under

 

butterfly fangs

At Last

 

RIP ANNE OF CLEVES

Zela Listens to Lepidoptera

SCANDALOUS POSSIBILITIES

 

I owe them this

 

Metamorphosis

Lost in Time

Canarias

 

Why Mares Have Long Soft Ears

 

Eternal Kisses

Reflections in the Bathtub

 

Os cabalos

 

Blue Can Stretch

Song

 

Hang Your Head

Granddad and the Unbutterflies

Open Slowly

Sculpture

Foreign Age

Water in Water in Water

Inishmore

Mother Earth

flood the sky

 

Mermaids in My Future

 

Slain

Catarina’s Butterflies

Layers

Stable

Honey

Guarding the Self

Raise Your Eyes

Kaleidoscopic Yearning

Listen

Interrupted

Visitant

We, the Pumpkin-Eaters

Duet

The Knock

My bath is a Jurassic coast

The Salt King Speaks

A Haunting

 

Dodo and Celia

 

Touch

 

Pestle

The Moral

A Story

Life in Quadrants

Art is my medicine*

My Last Duchess

The Metamorphic Moment

The women

One day we shall feast

Maidservants

Domestic Bliss, Interrupted

A Seven-Part Setting with Seven Companions

Beneath the earth

OUR SKIN IS LIKE THE DAWN

Eve

Immured

My Water’s Gift

Perspective

Pausing with Butterflies

Sedna’s Celebration

Saol ‘na gCodladh

A Horse is a Horse is a Horse

Psyche

Baking in bed

Bath Time on New Year’s Eve

Horse Whisperer

Once Upon a Time

What I Hear Hanging

 

Little Mouse

Mythology

Butterfly Effect

nikita and i (cappadocia)…

 

That Year

Mermaid Cove

Golden Hour

To Get Back Home Again

The October Horse

 

Master/Mistress Business

Why She Keeps the Ocean Close

Migration Patterns

Horsehead Nebula

Unspooled

Collective Noun for Mermaids

Synaesthesia

Eternal Pastures

Hammershøi light

Swim with Dreams

Reverie I

 

Witch Flesh

Date Night

Dandelions

Butterflies Migrate

Somewhere in the Aegean

 

oh dear

Never a Shower

555

Of All Coats, My Own Fits Best

Forever Champion

 

Charon the bus driver

All That Glitters

Ravenscar

A Better World

After the Clocks Go Back

Aesthetics

Sunrise Eco-Adventure

The Beginning or the End

Autumnal Crocuses

All the Women on Earth

on life rafts & weekday baths

With his Back to the Sun

Determine

Mermaid Crystals

I am here

I LOOKED AT THE BLACK VENETIAN MASK

 

Philanthropy

Gratitude

Odin

 

Portrait as Sisterhood

Bathing At The Edge Of Life

The Safe House

Time For A Performance Artist

I Heard Directly From The Horse’s Mouth (or Never Judge A Horse By His Teeth)

 

Scene and Gone

new year same bath water

Horse, Field, France

 

Never Forget the Milk

Dear Sister

The last time

Horse head

 

ITCH

 

ACT 1, SCENE 1

 

No Pity (for Matthea Harvey)

Hard winter

 

Over the shoulder

 

The Nursemaids

 

Plastic Toy, Not for Seals

a siren

The familiar

why wait

 

In dreams, I did traverse…

Half-Seal

We look away

The Triggering of a Horse Head

My Mother’s Shark Scream

Arrangement

An Ill-Considered Thing

Fingertips/Empty

The power of silent movement

 

Pelagic

A portrait of shadow in sand

Marguerite, Magnus, and Rose

Mélusine

Return

The end of innocence

 

Horse Head Bravery

Before

HE RECALLS THE MYTH OF THE CAVE

Horse Sense

Barefoot

 

Horse girl

The Selkie Ghosts

Grimalkin

BLUE BEYOND

heir(loom)

T18.0XXA – Breathing Obstruction

Liebe Radioaktive Damen und Herren

Movement

Stunted

First Prize

Family Recipe

Anamorphosis

Pandora

Why I Kept Losing My Keys

Tessellate

Transfiguration

The Wall

Fob

OÁSIS

A mechanism far too finely-wrought

Soothing, routines

 

Little Lena

Putting the Tin Lid on it

While You Remain Ambiguous

Carthorse

The Day of the Hanging Key

THE KEY TO IT ALL

The Art of Looking

Geometry of Fear

 

Separate Floors

Your mother misses you already

 

Bonfire of the Properties

Equine Rainbow Atrophy

Nyx

 

AntiMatterhorn

The Kelpie Cometh

Sisters

 

Losing

In Memory of Horse

Re-enactment

 

The colors of the sky

Sorbet Runaway

SOME DAYS

Over the Edge

Why be a Unicorn Anyway?

The Ruin

The foundling

A Stone Horse

We are the key

Three Little Maids From Scone

Centauresque

Suspension

++++

O lente, lente, currite noctis equi

Just Cut Metal

Adjustments

Dreamhorse

A Spare Key

Evening at the Bakery

BEGINNINGS?

Meet At Our Spot

The Eighth Refraction of a Sideways Shadow

 

8 million

Why they say red and green should never be seen

A Refuge for Ginger Tom

 

The pawn’s curse

Relic

Sweetness

A love story

Temporary Social Housing

Two Sisters, a Mother, Waiting

The Cost of Expression is an Anti-colonial Urgency

The Plot

Bittersweet

If Only They Knew

Blown off course

Seek another world

WHY THE LONG FACE

Memory

Domesticity

 

Waiting Games

Blood & Moss

Observation

 

The mare

Blues and Greens

The Cheese Shop

 

Mare

Key of E

Disaster Mistress

 

History and Passion Ignored

The Golden Key

Sisters and i

 

Martin and me

Stowaway

 

The Hair of His Head

Rumspringa

 

Coming off Life Support

Stiff Peaks

 

Learning the art of balancing

The Algorithm

Energy is the plasticine of the universe,

A Season Past

Autumn Writing Prize

Unfolding Linens

 

The Rich Man

Why We Keep Stirring

 

The key

Cathy & Heathcliff

In service

 

Bartleby

HOW TO BE

Knitting yarns

take a pew

 

I laughed at him

Cortisol times

Alchemy

 

Guarding the Treasure

Staying Home

Pony

Berkane

Back then it was all about balance

All that Sparkles is not Sin

 

A steadfast hope

Device

The endless search for a lock

The Fat Cat Turned Away

 

Destitute

 

“Missed”

A Good Meal

Plasticine Pareidolia

Imagine a Woman

Trouble

 

Unfinished Dream

Here

Anti-aging

It was not mine

IMAGINARY PET BALANCING THROUGH LIFE

Segments of Time

The Trick

A Game of Keys

orange on blue on black on white

Rise And Fall Of Partner Acrobalance

Hope

What for

Inanimate Things

Silence

A quiet love story lived and forgotten

DEAR MOTHER

Mercy

Wooden Box

Everything

Thumbprint of Time

Turn

Lost

You think you’re so good, tangerine

Shadows

Globetrotting in six keys

Tangerine Delight

I Have No Body

GUMBY VISITS THE ORCHARD AND WRITES HOME

Once a room for righting things

A key with no use

I Smell You

Semi-Moored Silenced Super Girl

We were moulded

Thresholds

Pause

Plasti-scene

Closed to the World

at the edge of eternity

(a thing of plasticine is a joy forever)

The World’s Barricade

Horoscope Plus

AH

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