A Page of Long Ago

drawing found among the poems of Tennyson 

( from Bu- a book discarded by Pete who was leaving the island )

Working Towards

Mirran at the Museum

Ribbons for your Plaits

Iris & Eden

(especially the grey one)

( found at Recycling centre )

The Model Shipbuilder

Bellwether Boy at Campbell Works

SHUT UP 

1st - 9th April

The 1st Daffodils

always the white ones

under the sycamore trees

outside / in

Angels / Russell Edson / Noi

They have little use. they are best as objects of torment.

No government cares what you do with them.

Like birds, and yet so human...

they mate by briefly looking at the other.

their eggs are like white jellybeans.

Sometimes they have been said to inspire a man to do more with his life than he

 might have.

But what is there for a man to do with his life?

...They burn beautifully with a blue flame.

When they cry out it is like the screech of a tiny hinge; the cry of a bat. No one hears

it....

Another Fragment - Sappho

handcloths

purple

she sent from Phokaia

valuable gifts

Nellie's Jigsaw

I don't know what to do

                                                                                             two states of mind in me

( Fragments of Sappho - Anne Carson )

Guardians of the Staircase

sleeping is no mean art:

for it's sake one must stay awake all day.

( Neitzche )

THE POSITIVE EFFECT

OF

A NEGATIVE SITUATION

( Will )

Hookah Tree

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 )