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One Hour

Among the pigeons

My eyes are closed.

A game of eyes

Life Stolen

Fancy is a dangerous thing

Untimelich

On Wanderlust

Jackie and Brian

LET ME BE ALONE FOR A SECOND

Nexus

Facade

For Arjun

In Prayer

Hangdog

Unsacrificed

WHAT THE WOMAN IN THE PAINTING TOLD ME

Oneiromancy

The Dog House

Sitter/painter/curator

Bird & Dog Fancier-in-Chief

RACISM

Gretta’s Mirror

Dogsbody

Mother, I Remember You

an alternate version of aging

That’s Life

A DIRGE FOR MOTHER EARTH

Birdlet, Tree, Ferryman

Dwelling: in this place we breathe

Inked In

illuminating

There Is a Coffee-Colored Shop

YOU PICKED THE WRONG GIRL

Collage

Once the Illness

Lucid

From this perch, I can keep you safe

THE GEM THAT I WAS IN MID FADE

Mahalia Sings to Freedom

AN INCALCULABLY GREAT IMPOVERISHMENT

A STRING OF THREE AMULETS

Immortality

Dank Corners

The Difference

On safari in a short space of perfect time

miseducation

Un Coup de Foudre

Repentance

Might as well throw out this compass too

INNOVATION

The Photograph

The Fabulist Manifesto

When the Jackdaws Clatter

BLIND RUN

See/Unsee

The Many Shades of Baggage

The Haircut

Watermelon Day

Our Reminiscence

The Duty to Act

Abstinence

self-portrait of the young artist, dead

The Sacred Geometry of Human Motivation

Love hurts

Side by side

This house of outcasts

Child No More

NEW COURT RULES

RUSTY

Funerals

Broken Line

THINGS FALL APART

Fresh empire

Tracks

In plain sight

Now is the Time. Again.

I Can Walk in the Green Water

Beware

Mercy

Blurred Borders

Fancier

You must miss her!

Dayfall

PS. remember to feed the cat

Vision

Wrong side of the road

Five and thirty five

Like so many martyred saints

Coefficients, Coenzymes & Revelations

close-ups

Cherished

Adventure!

Fluidity

Hello. Operator?

Negative Space

In Sepia: A Ghazal

Through the lens

You missed a spot

In Search of Conall Fulton

Unknown Portrait on Linden Wood – Curator’s Label

Blood Points the Way

A Menagerie

Lost in Your Eyes

Uncharted

Documented

this is my name

Red Days

Held

Stockholm

The Angular Supper

My god-child, lost

Canine Teeth

THE ART OF DISGUISE

socially distant

Number One Clue

Exposed

A Dead Fish

Other Forms of Violence

Lies

The Priest

Balm

Peeled paint liberates form from form

Captivity

Collection in Person

Safe Passage

Fanciers

How Our Faces Suggest Many Continents

A Pandemic Poem

No Birds Need Apply

Necropolis

The Backroad to Memory Lane

Tear-Stained Skies

Barcode

The Press

Eden AGain

O Father!

Hwy 19

Life’s Brief Tenancy

Co-habitation

Consort

Please Do Not Waste This Time

Heart Beats

Biding

River View Perch Musings

Facing Funny

In Collaboration with

Portrait of A Grief

Easter Bonnet

The Smile

Claude

I’m not crazy

Crowning Glory

Roasted Goose with Crispy Skin

Apart, Together

Boone County Hundred Years Later

What they took away

Fair is Fowl and Fowl is Fair

Burials

One of us

Blind Stares

The beauty

Everything’s possible Chandler

Peephole

Who?

Goose

Scarecrow

A Capture

Ancient History

Safe

Path

A North Facing Room

Milestones, Interrupted

Mother Goose

“WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE, NOR ANY DROP TO DRINK”

Attitudes

Enigma

Feather and Flesh

Driving Theory

Work in progress

Neophyte

Imprinting Is A Thing

Marked Out

The truth behind sepia-tinted memories

No First Love

Don’t Call Me Marilyn

Lockdown Blues Reds and Greens

tether & tender

Talisman

Whispers

Tennis ball

My tufts

ANONYMOUS WAS HERE

Where streets are faded

The Dead Don’t Smile

THE GOOSE THAT LAYS THE GOLDEN WIG IN A FAIRY TALE

small rivers

The Boy. The Girl. The Maiden.

Waffle

We Are the Road

Axis Mundi

That went well

Home schooling

INTERIOR DECORATING – HERCULANEUM

Iridescent Camouflage

Problems in navigating the topographical model

Beaky Lips

My proposal story

Ancient Portrait of a Youth

Leda &

From Here, Now

Wings

Call Me Easter

In The Red Zone

MOVE CLOSER TO ME

Wedding Day Jitters: Pinch Me, Please

The Fairy Godmother Searches For Substitutes

Moonchild

Mirror Games

In Consideration of a Flag

The Bride

The Risk

IMPLACABLE FRIENDS

Customary Notions

WIKIPEDIA

Free Market Capitalism

The Golden Ingot

Unnamed Reality TV Show

The Retrospective

My dear boy at rest

Her Favorite Feeling Is What She Feels Looking Down The Window

Gaze

Welcome Mat

Bad Hair Day

Cross Over

Stare

The Pact

Red and green for the Queen

Time

Coming

When A Duck Sells His Soul To The Devil

Frida Kahlo’s got nothing on me

Reflection

Respect the boundary

The Rt Hon Drake Anatidae MP

A look to camera

Fading Away

14 August 2022

Holes

Art

Goose Girl

A Moving Ghost

ON GEESE AND OTHER DELICATESSEN

Windows of my soul/study

Lakeside

Out of Line

Fiction

Blonde Ambition

Stop or Go

Identification

Water play

Different Times

Unloved

Plucked, or fucked?

Rebels

Fayoum

The Reservoir

Red and Green

The maturity of innocence

About the Author

Was this a life?

The Empty Confession

Blurred Lines

One Room School House

Expanse of Time and Place

Duck

Altered Trajectory

Cieco

Direct Action

New Build

Safe and Secure

On the Forest Floor

cul de sac

RESILIENT

Different Yesterday

Nature’s forgiving Spring

As A Child

The New Normal

Don’t even ask

Laela

Back to the concrete womb

BETTER RABBITS THAN SHEEP

Art, as more than music

gulmohar flowers

One White Lie

Invisible Resilience

NOWHERE ELSE TO GO

The Decision

Old Age

Instead of letting us pass

Sometimes homecoming isn’t easy

Her reflection

Below/Above

The Stand

Grandmama’s Alway Been

Sea of sorrows

In the Rusting Sky

Conference of my reflections

A PEDESTRIAN PAUSES ON THE PAVEMENT IN REVERIE

Surprising and Distressing Things

Roadkill

THE CIRCLE GAME

Anthology

Failed Refuge

Where the lines used to be

Ducks Welcome Here

New Dust

call it dreaming

COAST ROAD

TIME TO LEAVE

EASY PREY

Will to Dream

Flyover

Minotaura

CEREA, THE STORY SO FAR

Harbinger

Paint my Portrait

CLARE’S HAIR

together

Only the Good

Amarelo

The Reincarnation of an American Pop Artist

Insight

The Lost Child

The Tale of Boris and Dom

Nice Hair

Sight Lines

Donald’s Forever Home

YOUNG

Reflecting Pool

Rebirth

Beauty

Untitled

The Last Portrait

Refugee

Don’t duck it

FRONTIÈRE

A found sketch of my mother

The Seeds of Creativity

Blondie

One Way Street

Madonna of the Cheroot

The Woman Who Waits

Quack

The Play

Between Acts

Pavement Postulations

MORAL OF THE STORY

The Corona’s Lovesong

Poem

Composition

TWIDDLING THE KNOB

Flight plan

Gearing up

Between Worlds

Have you met my friend?

Striations

Every lie a small play

A Thousand Words of Three

The Duck Dreaming

The last birthday present

Across the ocean

Impossible Dialogue

A FIGURE IN THE ABSTRACT

Quackery

Dichotomy In Transit

María at the Town Hall

By the Vale of Distances

Have A Gander At Boris

The beauty is in the chase

Madonna, Not I

Carrot Top

Positive Thinking I & II

Gridlock

Two people who should never meet go on the Guardian Blind Date

Tethys

Ablutions

BLACK WHITE GRAY

It was an improvement, he thought

PPE

standing there

Smoke Without a Soul

Natural order

I GUESS!

Reflecting Relation

You and your kind

His Eminence In Resistance

Write Lines (Don’t Do It)

Life In Another Place

at the wedding reception

The need for touch

Imprint

Standstill

Zigeunerin

Feng Shui

Triangular

THERE SHE IS

Vision on a Tardy Return

Visionary

intoxicated

The (Donald) Duck Test

A Sailor in Dark Mode

SHE’S NO PICASSO

Not Yet

Thwaites Glacier

Is This the Look you Wanted?

Belonging

ONCE UPON THIS TIME AGAIN

Appreciation

Yes, I said.

Confit

Flat Line

On Missing Stars

Preparatory Sketch

Duckie

No, this is not Sierva Maria.

Intrepid Belle

La Gypsy Girl, Smoking

Interpreting the Image

clock in / clock out

Portraiture in Motion (Circa 1900)

They lick you before they eat you

at the helm

Reflecting future and past

Light up

The Man Who Carried A Stuffed Duck Everywhere He Went

Not right now

The Metallic Taste of Grief

I Was Not Like Her

The Bewigged Goose

Marching Orders

Hailing

Aunt with Cigar

No Snow Goose

Destination Unknown

Dry paths, from pooling traumas

The Arrangement

Motherhood

Put Away

This House

Señorita Maltratado

Searching

Moss and Bleach

I Stare

Lonely People

Mrs Cottrell’s Garden

The Motorway

ON REFLECTION

Bridesmaid

An imprinting fool

Shoreline

Female gutter reflection

Anthropogenic Addiction

The Goose of Persephone

Obvious

The New Scarf

What the puddles tell me

A portrait of Medusa

Liam

Spiritual Traffic

Words & Ash

Simone is in hysterics

The Picture

Her Gaze

First Date

Side by Side

Resin

Freed Boy

You’re Late

Charlie

Power Play

The Big Cheese

What You Wish to See

Blonds Have More Fun

Wild West

Séraphine and The Tender Claw

Angled taffeta

Wanderlied

Blue Sky Thinking

In The Private Theater of the Mind…

Milk in Venice

NO HARM DONE

Washed Up, Washed Away

Me – in reverse

non-dairy alternatives

Foreign Girl

CALL IT BOREDOM OR WHAT YOU WILL

Condemnation

A cloud is just smoke from a god bigger than us

TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY BANSHEE

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