All Souls Day

up the steps to

look at the devil's claw marks

beyond all the graves cows lying down.

Stromness Window ( papercut )

Sycamore Keys / Paul Klee

(Still Life in Width-Stilleben in die Breite)

Waves go Sideways

Waves go sideways.

Birds fly backwards.

The October flowers are torn off & blown across the island.

That Lamp of the Possible

Back then, the sun 

Didn't go down in such a hurry. How it

Lit things, that lamp of the Possible.

( Sylvia Plath - Memoirs of a Spinach-Picker )

Waiting for the Storm

& preparing.

( newspaper from the wall

in a dark corner of the hall )

Mushrooms

3 Sentences

Waiting for the car to be fixed: there's a low moaning sound.

2 men and a bull appear on the road & go past Scar.

Otherwise it's quiet .

They Love the Cut Cornfields

.......Wild geese fly high and symbolise those who live

 far from earthly rank and

follow an ordered life.........

( The Bestiary )

Burness Clock

just as the sun was rising

with the young Dalai Lama ( from Kenneth )

The Geese Flew away

& Dubuffet

Finishing the Foam Filler

( B )