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What Happened to the Freedom of the Sky?

Animate

Taking in the headlines

Giants in the Sky

Road Map

Ink

Obsolete

Terrarium Thoughts

The Lines

The Body of Earth

In This State of Pandemonium

Critique this

Chia Head

Up, up and away . . .

What was once seen

Plants in my head

Visual Effects

Citizens of the Globe

“Ambitious” Woman: Young

SUDDEN SPRING

Flying in the Sky

A Lasting Moment

Sun woman

Night Witch (to Zhenya Rudneva)

The wrong comparison (on reading Maryann Corbett’s biographical note)

Self-Cultivation During the Pandemic

New Normal

Bird Box Me

How does your Garden grow?

Have your change for the car park ready

Keep It Under Your Hat

God’s Honest Truth

Magnificent Folks In Their Flying Machines

older sisters are for going places

Fire Season With Meg

Flight to my Inner Child

FINAL EDITION

Expansive Blue

The Way the World Was Spun

Growth

Take Me Away

Unidentified Protester

FOR MARY & MOLLY

A world of wonder or not

when ignorance is bliss

Sweetpea

Troposphere

Coverage

Denatured nurturing

Doubtless other creatures would have come and gone, also of course

Fire

Solar Fugue

The Fall Guy Flies

Afrorealist: In black and white and blue

In Bloom

garnet: I knew the moment I met you

Hidden from me

Imperial March

Jazzy Jiggy Love

Queen

Airborne

Trimming my best friend’s snake hair

News Story: A Reflection

Afloat with Gin

I Wear

Justitia

A HISTORY OF AVIATION PART 73

Harvestman/HS2

Paper Things

Insomnia

Kalanchoe Fingertips

All I Need to See

Birds Without Feathers

after the dry spell

Rag Helmets

Hope

Come Aboard

ATROPOSMAN

Moon Complexion

Greatness Lost

Ears on our backs

Merry-Go-Round

All the Words

One way… or another

Stop Splitting Hairs

Bridal Veil

Cétshamhain – Empress of Stone

Our Woodstock Weekend, August 1969

Ahead

Whirled Piece

I Make A Paper Crown Out Of Your Newspaper

To Find Heaven.

Better

Blinded By The Words?

SOLAL

Her Feelings

In Hard Times

Mrs. Waterflower, Young Juniper, & The Air Travelers

Voices

Solace

The Peacemakers

Blind Attraction

Lockdown

If Only

Hierarchy of Depiction

SUCKER

Aerial Fantasies

FLIGHT MATES ON A LUNAR TREK

Eternal Beauty

She takes a year to get ready

A World Without Air

That I could be

Propagation

Will You Comb Your Hair?

For the Stories Left Untold

Marvana // Sketches for a Future

Through a Fine-Tooth Comb

THE BLUE MAN

Ghoulish Butterflying Dream

BLAMELESS

Her routine, her roots

A seamless transition

UNMISTAKABLE IDENTITY

end of the world in thirteen lines

Sahel

She Rises Out

Fountain Dust Combs

You can’t imagine

Stories

Harsh New Realities

Girl with a Carrot

SILKS ON A CACTUS

The Art of Preservation

Carrying Beauty

In the garden of the self

Goddess

Papillon

Contrary to the intangible grapevine

Lapidary

Podkletnov’s Task

the photographer

Landscape

Mellow

Salvation

Dance

Bright Harvest

THE CONFIDANTS OF OUR SOLITUDE

Freedom is a State of Mind

The Gardener

We are all having an event

Spring Waltz

Collage

Ajar, Agape

On Freedom

In Fall

Amelia in Nature

Rise

Wild Once

Jill Or Jeanie

Gardeners’ Question Time

Leap Of Faith

On Seeing a Falling Star…

JOY’S SEVEN DEGREES AND POCKET FULL OF STONES

GOING WHERE THE WIND BLOWS

Vat’s Life

THE SPIRIT IN THE TREE

La dance joyeuse de voyage

Hapi reincarnate on the Lea (or, Lord of the Fish and the Birds of the Marshes)

EARTHLY and HEAVENLY

Parallel

Mobile

Grow

Sun and the Mind

A Very Long Sentence

mother earth

Head Games

July

Yearning Divine

Self-Portrait as CV-19 Survivor

those days we walked on water

World ‘X’ Day

Captivated

Untethered

Sunshine

Renascence of Destruction

Our Future

The hunt

Your head waits for your heart

A Mind Filled with Stars

Lake dancer

Self love is the best form of love

The primary impulse more often than not is linguistic*

The Leap

Unkept

Kathi with an “i,” she’s the one you want to talk to if you want to set your world alight

I Found Form

Storyteller And Word Weaver

Maakt Niets Uit (It Does Not Matter)

How to soar above the static

In The Cotswold, Together

A FERTILE PLACE

Giselle & Albrecht Reborn

Jarhead Dreams he’s a Real Boy

And yet

Anthropomorphic Understory

Cocoons Of Hope

The fire of life

Reflow

Insect Collector

BEFORE WE SAY I LOVE YOU

Overthinker

Spring Cleaning

Finding the Horizon

what ought to bloom

Oscillation

Ultramarine

Reports to Mission Control

Kaleidoscope Conscience

Leaping Over Unknown Waters

Like a Poem Read Aloud

Mother Nature Thoughts

Seaweed

A Thousand Words

Dream Boy

Fishing with Daddy

Freedom 2021

Human Sprouting Tree!

Little plant

TURRA’NDORR

Dragon

Tééré, 2017

Above

Fly

Detoxing

late

Emergence

Know your beat

MEDITATION

Insight

Let us dwell, a little longer

Sunshine After Rain

Wilderness

Becoming Botanical

I CAN SEE IN SILENCE

deliquescent with a crunch

ARABESQUES TO THE AIR

Unite

Insects and Stars in Jars

Overrule Gravity

This is our marriage …

History

Same again tomorrow

Perfect Whole

Durability of color

The Minor Leagues

Jog by the Lake

The Blind Preacher

Bodil

7 days

Invisible

Become Forgotten

There’s a woman who

For us remembering is like breathing

MUSIC IN WIND, MUSIC IN MIND

Overload

I leave in a deeper silence

Temporal Glitch

A Jovian on a Journey

Shades of Sepia

Cerulean Freedom

Jar

Raise Me Up

Distance Dancing

Clarity

The deep-rooted urge to find solace in a higher power*

Swallowed Whole

Man Netting Bugs on the Bank

Closed Eyelids

The observer captures

Bee in a Jar

A Celestial Faith

Ferrotype

RIP Margaret

Escapee

Eyelids, of Visionary sight

Naturally Living

The Collection

1,096 Days

we’re not falling out of the sky

Red Shift

Kerchief Nostalgia

Given To Be Stolen

Today’s Harvest

Charm

The Two

the summer fresh nymphs

Breathing Space

INVITATION TO THE DANCE

Remember

Soar Above

Our Summers

The Reproduction

Embrace the bustling sky

A MEMORY OF BEES

Silent Sob

For The Hope Of It All

The Approach To Other Lives

Her Spectre

Do you remember how

Awake To The World

No justice

creation

From a small girl in South Africa circa 1983

Leap of Faith

Let them

WASTELAND

Across a Divide of Water, I Twirled

This Moment

Sight

By Inner Leaps and Bounds

ALCHYMIA

The Episodes

Converse Commercial

Daughter of the Night – for Shukri Abidi

The Courser’s Tale

Sepia

Artistic Licence

and then came Autumn

After the Credits

The Only Way

A white woman asks herself if she is the one

And we shall name the beast Harold

SHE’S GOT A BEE IN HER BONNET ABOUT CATCHING A RAINBOW

COVID CHOREOGRAPHY

Reverse ghazal daguerreotype

Call Me a Dandy

A CHILD’S CHRISTMAS ON ALBANY AVENUE

Jar full of Future

The Dance

Ancestry

The Animal Psychic

Just Too Long On The Beach

A Rock and That Hard Place

Ballet Through The Pandemic

Choking

The Pet Store Owners Speaks of Absolute Freedom

CANNING

Not Asleep

Context

Five Bumblebees

Colourblind

Margaret’s Tuesday Visits

Sestina With A Drawing I Dislike, And Agnes Martin’s ‘Flower In the Wind’ (1963)

Our Stay Safe

Space to Breath

Inventory

DIFFERENT MILLENNIUM, SAME SONG

Dancing Memories

Suffocation

And Now for Something Completely Different

Managing Millstones

after folding our muscles the shape lockdown

Contact

my own creation

Stellar Disintegration

Useful Art

To all those who have something to say about me

Domestication

Pickled Beets

WIND-BLOWN

PRUDENCE

All Will Come Good

abracadabra

Trigger Point

Fancied

Survivor

Rules of Time

Contortions

Finnegan’s Non-Shenanigans

A Safe Place to Breathe

Spiders and Flies and Snakes and Nightmares

On Tooting Bec Common

The Whippet

Feelings and Forms

Souvenirs

This Time

Hounds of the Battersea Rookery

Woman

A Moment of Mind Expansion in Watercolors

The next dance

A vanishing

The Answer

Hyphens

Nihil Obstat Nothing is an Obstacle

Seventh Street

to spell

Not Anymore: A Ghazal

If not now when

What About the Cats?

Song to Reach the End of the World

WATERCOLOR DREAMS

The Back To Normal Workout

After Happily Ever After

KHADIJA

Pupa, larvae and unborn butterflies

A DREAM OF HEAVEN

I Envy You, Calm Woman

Bird & Dog Fancier, with a Few Cats Thrown In for Good Measure

See More of the World

Twin Souls

For A Moment

Cage, Kennel, Home in Times of Pandemic

The Tyranny of Light

Mind Over Matter

i feel

Antique Harbingers

Marcia or Martin

Shape Shifting

Shade

MY IMAGINARY DOG

Her name is Gaia

Dancing in the sky

Close My Eyes In The Light.

Something Missing?

iss da apocalypse so i stay high

Wanderlust

You Think That Because My Eyes Are Closed

Obscure

World in Sepia

A Green Light At Night

Falling

Haunting

Animal Carer

When is a door not a door?

Let’s fly high

Mixed Emotions

Ahmed and Sons Pet Shop

The Lost Soul

BOUND FOR GLORY

“got you, stand right there”

The Unfortunate Tail or Cousin Oscar Cocks A Snook

The Growing Portal

Love and Joy

only memory

Forever Home

Bottled Bleu

The Art of Loneliness

Do not close your eyes

The masters

Youth means someone is still growing

Amulets

Alexandrians

Loud Whispers

In Collaboration with

Estrangement

Nascence

On a mountain path, a painter meets a novice buddhist nun

A time before: of reality to come

CAN YOU SEE MY PAIN?

A Basket of Hopefulness

Leap and Grow

Seeing

Amara sits still…

Fancy!

Things to Do to Pass the Time

A Cracked deliverance

A HEMINGWAY HERO INSTEAD

Sheen

White Glue

2020

My Ancestress

Show me your monster

Birds, Cats and Dogs

Mummy Portrait of a Youth

Choked

Silenced

Paper Birds

Nothing More Is Permitted On The Tenth

At nineteen

Where whispers descend

Invisible Chains

Bone and Pigment

Unwrought

Togetherness

There was once a racetrack in Notting Hill, true story (after Peter Carey)

Sitting with Wonder

A Warm Opening

Three Cats

My Archeologycal Mind

you are my sister

You Can’t Sell A Dime-If You Ain’t Got No Rhyme

something old, something new

Mystery Adolescent

SOLITUDE

Gandari

Mourning

Women and Pets

Khadija sees

Moonlight

Elementary

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