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 )

Another Pointing Figure

Blue Overalls

& leaking hot water bottle

Imagine you are a Tree

Imagine you are tree out in the rain.

( And, of course, you are )

Imagine that this is a sad nocturnal truth.

Right away, a lot of things come clear.

( Mikhail Aizenberg )

Seeing the Sheep

from upstairs

(studio window)

& garlic flowers

EQUINOX

 Swiss picnic 1965 

Hurdy Gurdy Man

Keiner mag ihn hören,

keiner seicht ihn an

 no one listens to him

no one notices him 

(Wilhelm Muller...Winterreise)

Sitting on the Wall

drinking tea after lunch

watching clouds move at different speeds

Prada Horse

at Kettletoft

(in his Autumn coat )

Barnacle Petals

There are found in the North parts of Scotland and the Islands adjacent, 

called Orchades, certaine trees  whereon do grow certaine shells  of a 

white colour tending to russet,wherein are contained little living creatures;

 which shells in time of maturity doe open, and out of them grow these

 little living things, which falling into the water become fowles,

which we call barnacles, and in Lancashire, tree geese

....Gerard's Herbal 1597

Slowly

still forming

( the monster tails )

Out In

Nuno's Unfinished Kite

missing windows

and sole of child's shoe

(found on the bay)

Bits of Paper

all around the house

with Noi's drawings on them

Yesterday / thats how it felt

leek flowering

lost bird at last turning place

Jean's Indian lilies

& now the daunting North wind

has started up again and the 

windows need to be Replaced