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watersteps stoneskies windhouses

aircellars rainhearts sandbodies

cliffmouths riverstomachs icesexes

snowlungs coalbrains cloudfingers

saltnerves eartheyes heartache

( I.C.)

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Martin Ramirez / Courtyard

A stone rolls down from the mountains

Sisyphus pushes it up

A stone rolls down from the mountains

Sisyphus pushes it up

A stone rolls down from the mountains

Sisyphus pushes it up

Sisyphus sings:

A stone flies up over the mountains

( Inger Christensen )

Goose

Goose

As the Unruly Sun Comes Up

on a clear bright day

hooded crow is the Chimney King

until the Ravens come by

Going back to Egilsay

Saska and Peacock

And Vole

possibly an Orkney vole

but it's nose looks  a bit long

Dudley Somerville's Mouse Skin

found 

pressed

inside a Greek Bible on Rousay

(among a Shed full of books)

Watt ( more Birds )

We shall be here all night,

Be here all night shall we,

All night we shall be here,

Here all night we shall be,

One dark, one still, one breath,

Night here, here we, we night,

One fleeing, fleeing to rest,

One resting on the flight.

Brendan's Bird

drawn in Thailand ( 1986 )

WATT / Becket

 Now the day is over,

              Night is drawing nigh----igh,

       Shadows of the evening

Steal across the sky

The Quality of Life

the new Sanday Recycling Centre

has opened at the Temperance Hall

Faberge Owl and Robert Burns plate ( chipped )

Chinese Rabbit

November moon

on the road at night

            the moon goes into a cloud

      above the skeleton barn

Last Page of Diary

Stormy Times

Drawings rescued from the fire

reignited by a flying ember

Kitchen (4)

It's the kitchen here but also the  kitchen at Bramblemoor

where the walls were painted grey- blue and yellow ochre

 and the sun shone in  from the garden instead of the sea

& some more