why not utopia,

Parents

His Terrible Smile

Earth and her Sheshnaag

Upright, while upside down

The Sunglobe

The Ceiling

Solo serpentine

The Magnifying Glass

Rain ritual

Food Insecurity

To Whom It May Concern

A Journey Unnecessary

In the Hierarchy of Things

I call her Medusa

Now Do You See?

A Sigh For Days Gone By

The Day I Knew I Cared for You

Restless, In Thrall to Luminescence

An Unexpected Encounter

Grandma’s Lore

Tales of Lake and Sky

Food Pyramid

long distance

Farm Under The Sand

We All Need a Red Bear

Maniac

CHOOSERS OF SOULS

A yellow wormy squirmy spotty little bug

Response to the Serpent Song

Grace

Something we never noticed before

Long Time Ago

I Think There’s a Bear in These Woods

Forever Writing

In the old days

Hunt

ICE AGE

The Charge

Sonny Smiles

ZOOID

unperceived

A revolting rhyme

Mother’s yearnings

Afternoon Swim

Quetzalcoatl

Moving On/Away

The Wrath of the gods

To the Shore

The Proposal

rapture

WINTER NEVER TREATS ME BADLY

The Wild Dancers

The Mass Psychosis

Transformation

If only the night had gone

River/River

To The Rescue

Poem That Ends with a Firing Squad

Thuban

The Shining

THE FALLEN ANGELS

Beware the Bear

My Worlds

Herakles the Hippo

Falkor’s Horizon

Nagini, that may not comply

The Most Amazing Thing

In Grandma’s Yard

Instamatic Dream

THE PLAYFUL SUMMER BOYS

THE ORBEARANGE

Lucky Charm Words

A Trip to the Dentist

To Wander

The Insomniac

We’re going on a frog hunt!

SECOND LIFE

really?

Double life

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Marcus, The Teddy Bear, and Eli, The Guinea Pig

Bear With Me

To be young was very heaven

There’s Sometimes Something Venomous: a Fable

Premier Class Magnifying Glass

The Coin

The Bear

About my bear

The ‘Not So Good” Bear?

What Tom Saw

Goblins and Shrapnel

aperitivi

The search

L’heure de soleil

Dreams of a Heaven

A Cave of Our Own

Texting’s Not Touching

Bauhaus Brain Funnel

Blow

What You Give Away

For the Sun after the Rains

The Possibilities are Endless

On Their Fifteenth Birthday (1st February, 2021)

Binary purgatory

RUMOR HAS IT, NAPOLEON DID TEXT SNOWBALL AFTER HE TRIED TO KILL HIM

I DETECT A PATTERN.

THE GOOD LIFE

Smorfia

SUBSTITUTES

What I have to say

Futurama

Bodies in the loch

The Dream

Send, Sending, Sent

Man Cave

Vahara’s Envoys

Manifest Me Baby

Pigs and Pixels

Pool

Haibun for the brushers of pigs

Newgrange Innisfree Viking burial (after WB Yeats)

Sea Scroll

Peace I give to you

Wars before Time

Fields Back Home Were Never Like This

The Wave

Who let the pigs out?

Rekindled

sow power

Cave of Cold Comfort

The message that’s hidden

Fragrant Paradise

The Middle of Nowhere

Squiggling in Lookalike Close

Camera

Soothe me technology

Hunger Pains

More Than A Feeling

But Isn’t It…

PIG TALK

The Weather House

Buzz buzz

End of the World

Pigs in Space

You and I

The Rise and Fall of a Sigh

Border

(THOSE FEW DAYS WITHOUT YOU)

Axis (or: Choose How It Ends for Some Sense of Control)

What Else Should I Say

Afterword

squealer

Fantasy

Cirrus

Communications

On this earth

Nostalgia aside…

Journey

The Lard Renderers

Story Time

Sweet Bacon (or try not to sing)

The Dead Lake

well-groomed

A Thoroughly Modern Circe

ΕΔΕΜ

All the colours of the rainbow

New Phantasmagorics

Toxic Creep

The Thrillseekers

In Clover

New

Password

The Camp

New Atlantis

Prayers at dawn

Staring at Fences

Sea Shadows

Escape at Last

Cutting Edge

Permitted

they put knives in our boots

All writing is pigshit

The Echocall

Practicing to be free

My little cutie

We Were Colleagues

Ode to a Pudgy Pet

The Dancing Pig

Did You?

Pig, Text, Love

Obsessed

Groomed Pigs

Love, Interrupted

Creation

Photographs

Bubbletime

What failing

Alongside the WatchTower

Magic word

Belly Draggers

A private place

GROTTO

In Deserts Far

After the beast escaped…

JEWEL OF THE SEASONS

Behind the screen

Weightlessness

Brush my Pig

missingspace

I See A Rainbow

A Million Reasons Why

Some tips for acclimatising in the meantime

White Light Dawns

Tomorrow

Touchscreen

Polarised

The Jump

Realisation

Time to Grow

The radio stopped halfway through auld lang syne

Neighbours’ Remuneration

Forest of his Heart

THE DAWN IS DUE TO COME

Facial Recognition

The antithesis of obliviousness

Before an Open Refrigerator

Mistyped

Dying embers

A silence untouched

Leyman

TELL ME WHO DID THIS TO THE WIRE FENCE

Wake

Gulf

Bolt Cutters

The Reasons

_ me, like __

Gaping

Behind the skies

Mother’s Cot

The Ancestors Saved You a Chair (for my father)

Portal

Be Seein’ You

A colourful moment

Quatenary Glaciation

Two Little Piggies

The Entryway to ROYGBIV

Which Way Is Out?

Craze

What’s over the exile fence?

Ask Yourself

he looks off to the left and the rest just happens

The Fencing in of Rainbows

BETWEEN

He Spoke in Symbols

ALEPPO SUNRISE

once upon a time

EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NOT FREE, THEY LEARNED TO LOVE THEIR FATE (OR: WE HAD TO TEACH THE PIGS OUR WAYS, SO THEY COULD BUY OUR LIES)

Wires Crossed

When A Glacier Decides To Morph

The Distance Between Your Face And The Screen

Vander

Gates

Pork scratchings

Unclaimed Freedom

Extracting Green

MUM

Repetition

Boy-ology

The Silence Between

The Sunglasses Kiosk

Gaea

DAISY

Cassata Kiss

The Light Behind

The Hole in the Fence Beckons

On that day

Emoji Tears

Flamingos

Airless

In Review

If You Like It, Send Yes

Compassion

PIGMENTATION

Take Offs & Landings

A list

Folds

Kayla

King Lear

Lyrical Freedom

NEWSPAPER MASKHEAD

The Sweet Spot

Enter the theologians

You Sow, You Reap

On Puzzles, Patterns, and Pairings

Emphasis

Is the rainbow good enough

A Simple Response to the Pleasure of Your Almost Touch

Colour Palette

ANIMAL FARM TWO

The Barbed Hole Of Pain

IT’S EASIER THAN YOU THINK

Those That Went Before Us

SWINE SONG

I’m OFFENDED

Refugee

Knowing

Before the deluge

Late-Night Conversations

Refraction

Lockdown Love

Listening Post

Abbreviated World

Wayfinder

Pink And Blue, And A Whole Rainbow Of (Other) Colours In Between

Thinking in Another Colour

If pigs could speak could we understand them?

CHAINS

Is this what we have come to?

Sunset Hole

Swine Reunion

A Possible Warning

Circe, Saturday

The Chain Link Fence

Simmering Cauldron

Call Sheet Prohibition

37 Down

#Influencer

Borders

Not the small ads

Breach

Double Blind

If I were happy

make good neighbours

I SEE YOU. DO YOU SEE ME?

I.D.S.T.

Knowing what it is to create

Private Property – KEEP OUT

Baobaby

cage and christmas

How to Use a Newspaper

Freedom

Peek-a-boo

Definitions

I, Cyborg

Under an East End Sky

Broadsheet Journos (apologies to the Guardian)

It Always Smells Like Rain Here

Through the fence

Dark Web

Vultures Circling Overhead

We Must Fly

The Ship

Sailing Away

Ghazal After Flight Winds

THE MAIDEN VOYAGE

The sun’s seventh horse

Love is my word of the year

Icarus Dreams of the Future

Ropes

Ephemera

A new kind of light

On Disinformation

In The Air Cornershop

A Rookie Air Traffic Controller’s Worst Nightmare

Leave to Stay

Gossamer Wings

Fly Away

Let me tell you how it started

Photography

Fool’s Pride and Glory

Experience Day

From Up Above

Annoying

INHUMANE HUMAN

Breaking

Risen From Her Hunger

A Carousing Cacophony of Flight

Release

Mindful

Blue Sky Thinking

Looking Out: Passing Through

Temporary Sightlessness

Fettered

Rainbow Beacon 2021

Fashion Statement

On Air Travel

We Must address: our H2O Crisis

MIRAGE

A Different Sky

The Need For Blue

Holding Up Mirrors

Entwined

The Ghost Off Main Street

Contraptions and Creation

Try As I Might

Breach, or New Year in Lesbos

If only flight was easy

Breaking News

moments of Many Colours

Blueprints for Tomorrow

Me

The Hopeful Beyond

Beach Read

The Children Look into the Horizon

Down To Earth

Intersections: Bare Shoulders

Aspiration

Dreams

Broken News

technicolour

The Final Frontier

BITES

Imagination

Take to the Air!

For the embers that died in the midst of fire

Tight-rope

Not Ours

Words do hurt…

Putting Yourself Up There

THE INKBLOT TEST

Soon

People in the Sky

Blind Truth

LACUNAE

Nightmare

Blind ’em

DISORDERED RAINBOW

Memoirs of a daredevil

sightseeing

Exodus

a new king of the skies

Some

Finding the yeti

Limits

FLYING HIGH

Exclamation Points

Blindsided

The Fighting Temeraire

Joyride To Heaven

Paper Thin Corridors (or Fly Beyond Here Towards Your Own Dreams)

after silence

THE WAY IT IS OR NOT REALLY

Hat

Absolution

Heavy Air

Society News

Gone

Desire

Groceries on my mind

Tinsnips

The Easy Bit

Is this your first?

IS THAT RIGHT?

Safety Wings

Headline News

The Mundan

Garden/Self

Only one crop

Stella and the Sky Captain

If Taylor Swift’s ‘Paper Rings’ Was Written By Pushkin Who Had Also Been Hit Over The Head With A Large, Dull Rock

Floating

For the Birds

At least the rituals are aesthetically attractive

statement

Revelation

On Hot Air

Blessings

The Cap

Nirvana is shit

DOZY

FINAL CONSULTATION

Mid-life Meditation

Free Press

The Hindenburg World (Our Future in the Skies)

Everything Was Massive

The Plainspoken Poem

Meanwhile

A wind blows in the West

Living Fallacy

When Your Eyelashes Graze The Tops Of Your Cheeks

A garden is more than growing

For Sale – Second Hand Fishing Boat

My own valley

Bad Origami

The Flying Tour

My Gardening

The Crone

Aerial View

An intimate accordance with life

Unwrapped Typeface

Up in the Air

Skin Hunger

I See You

THAT GREAT THEATRE IN THE SKY

The Quiet Hum of Existence

Newspaper

Bubbles

The Tree Which I Became

Chip Paper