Where You are is Where You are Not

 Do the animals kneel down at midnight ?

We pictured the meek mild creatures where

They lay down in their strawy pen..............Thomas Hardy

( Christmas cards )

Cock a Doodle DOO

Sun Up

Talking Surfaces

Nellie's Tap

Mirror Ball

Eynhallow Cat

If We get to Heaven

and meet the Big Bright Light,

what will it be,

the eyes of the saints

or the flash of the camera ?

The Second Coming - Marlene Dumas

Ducks Flying

John O Groats

Thurso

( Mirran )

If you Want to be Happy

for Ever

Cultivate your garden

(Chinese proverb )

Hippology

David's horse bodkins

( lignum vitae )

the crusader's greyhound

& crossing the Forth

 in the Borders you do not know

for sure which country you are in

Nailed

to the centre of the whirlwind

If I stretch out my hand

the air is a spongy body

a promiscuous faceless being

Leaning over the balcony

                                                     I see

Octavio Paz - The Balcony

Tomatos - Shim

and Harvest lily

Kot Bambusowychi i Kopniety Ptaki

Galloway Linocuts

by Clare Melinsky ( April 1989 )

Clouds come Over / Budgie

( from recycling centre )

Message in a Bottle

from Malachi Magnus

arrived on the shore

and flowers of the earth ( B )

Equinox & Red Flower

in Kenneth's garden

All the Flowers / September

Rendall's white rose-elecampane-honeysuckle-monkshood

St John's wort berries-rudbeckia- Will's dahlia-autumn lilies

tansy-cranesbill-viola-nasturium-tibetan clematis-red spikes

fennel-marigolds-fascia-strange white-michaelmas daisies

Harvest Moon

( having slight eclipse )

Do I Frighten People

saying there's no back wall

nothing between you and your heart of darkness ?

or if there is you can't pray to it

you can't write poems about it

you can't compete for it's love.

it smells of predators - and terrible plans and non existence.

( Anne Carson - letter from Socrates to Crito and Nuno's cloud )

Noi's Clouds

When did I stop caring about arguments ? 

( Anne Carson )

Going to the Boat

stormy evening

( end of Summer )

( the waterworks )

White Toadstool

(destroying angel ?)

Shape Shifters

Light witches

Night witches

Ice witches

Shadow witches

Nature men

Time witches

Shape shifters