Before you were born, I lived with monsters (Good and bad at waiting 1)
A wolf who vanished, and a collection of polyhedrons (Good and bad at waiting 2)
One or other of us sometimes designing archways on paper napkins (Good and bad at waiting 8)
If things got too much, I leapt into pools (Good and bad at waiting 10)
And found myself ranging against miscalculation and the devil (Good and bad at waiting 14)
Rumours took me back up the mountain (The Goldmine 1)
to where the grass stopped being green. (The Goldmine 2)
The first clue I saw was a golden bolt, (The Goldmine 3)
lying not far from a golden wheel, (The Goldmine 4)
that had fallen from a golden cart, (The Goldmine 5)
that had come off golden rails, (The Goldmine 6)
that led to a golden cavern. (The Goldmine 7)
I unravelled a gilded rope ladder and descended (The Goldmine 8)
into a place where the darkness always glinted. (The Goldmine 9)
Polaroid Etching 1
Polaroid Etching 2
Polaroid Etching 3
Polaroid Etching 4
Polaroid Etching 5
Polaroid Etching 6
Polaroid Etching 7
Polaroid Etching 8
Pygmalion and the Gorgon
Dying Gaul (12)
Every Now and Then (turquoise)
Every Now and Then (sand)
Now and Then
Swan Dive II
One and a half somersaults forward
Landing
Haywards Diving Platforms
Interhotel
The Sun King
Camerondius
The Triumph of Wealth (from Contra portfolio)
The Triumph of Poverty (from Contra portfolio)
Paul was a gilder. (The Gilderbook)
He loved the glint of gold. (The Gilderbook)
One day, Paul gilded all the picture frames in his house. (The Gilderbook)
It wasn’t quite right, so he gilded the walls too. (The Gilderbook)
In the kitchen, he mused: something was wrong. (The Gilderbook)
So he gilded the table; (The Gilderbook)
the chairs; (The Gilderbook)
and then his parakeets, Myrtle and Mae (The Gilderbook)
Upstairs (and those were gilded too) (The Gilderbook)
with much deftness, Paul gilded his bed to better dream of gold (The Gilderbook)
The time came when Paul’s house was golden and shone like the sun (The Gilderbook)
And then the doorbell rang. (The Gilderbook)
Friends were calling and Paul felt immediately happy. (The Gilderbook)
Together they set off. (The Gilderbook)
And Paul soon forgot his golden house. (The Gilderbook)
Hieronymus was a lion tamer. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
He was known everywhere for his spectacular bravery and brilliant tricks. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
But the fearsomeness with which Hieronymus tamed lions frightened everything else away too. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
So Hieronymus passed the time with his lions. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
And his house, for all its magnificence, felt lonely and cold. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Noticing the advent of winter one morning, Hieronymus decided to buy a jumper. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Alexander Massouras
He found a jumper, but when lifted from the rail, it fell limp with fear.
The shopkeeper, terrified by Hieronymus, cowered and then fled. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Hieronymus sought comfort by feeding the ducks. But they would only jump on cones (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
or hold their beaks open (as if waiting for Hieronymus to place his head there.) (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Hieronymus trudged home. It was raining, but the drops did not dare to land on him. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
He arrived quite dry.
The following day he visited his doctor, who with grim inevitability leapt through hoops of fire. Since he offered no cure, Hieronymus left. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
As Hieronymus emerged, a bee landed on his hand. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Ambrose the beekeeper was near. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Hieronymus returned the bee. As he did so, Ambrose related his own affliction. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
So calming was his company that once, while summoning the fire brigade, Ambrose was met with snoring. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
If he tried to take a peaceful amble in the park, dogs would swarm around him. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
(And sometimes so would people.) (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Thus Hieronymus had an epiphany. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
They would trade places. Ambrose handed over his bees, and Hieronymus relinquished the keys to his lion house. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Hieronymus was a beekeeper. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
Ambrose was a lion tamer. (Hieronymus the lion tamer)
From the very beginning, Alfred pursued knowledge. (Alfred’s library)
Sometimes through discourse, (Alfred’s library)
most often from books. (Alfred’s library)
Often, too often. (Alfred’s library)
Book by book, he accumulated a stupendous library, (Alfred’s library)
Which grew to unimaginable heights (Alfred’s Library)
And Alfred found himself on a tower of knowledge, knowing. (Alfred’s library)
Retrieving a botanical book from the base one day, Alfred caused an accident. The tower fell. (Alfred’s library)
Alfred’s words were broken. (Alfred’s library)
‘Boo’, thought Alfred in so many words. (Alfred’s library)
And he decided to rest. (Alfred’s library)
One bright morning, Joseph woke to find the world as he had dreamt it, (In Flight)
(Except for the passing knight.) (In Flight)
The familiarity soon became oppressive, (In Flight)
So Joseph discovered the secret of flight and flew away. (In Flight)
High up in the clouds it was silent. When the balloon moved with the breeze, the balloon felt still. (In Flight)
And when there was no breeze,it was still. (In Flight)
The flight passed without event until a strange and ecstatic bird collided with the balloon, and both fell. (In Flight)
It was winter. At dawn Joseph found himself in a strange land, (In Flight)
which looked a lot like home. (In flight)
‘How do you describe a hole?’ Evelyn wondered, (A Trip Down)
Before falling into one. (A Trip Down)
‘And Is it possible to have a hole within a hole?’ she thought. (A Trip Down)
And down she went again. (A Trip Down)
In the darkness, she could see clearly: (A Trip Down)
I am in a desolate hole, and I have been foolish’, she said, as a bystander peered in. (A Trip Down)
‘I have buried myself in worry and imagined problems into being’. Passers-by shouted down and offered help, but Evelyn remained silent. (A Trip Down)
(A Trip Down)
Evelyn thought of the things she used to be and the places she used to go, (A Trip Down)
and about why there were holes where no holes should be. (A Trip Down)
Above, a glorious mechanism was devised to haul her out. (A Trip Down)
Evelyn emerged from the hole and all the joy and loveliness came back. (A Trip Down)
Televisions warned of rising tides. (The Invisible Land)
For a long time, Hans mistook these broadcasts for farce and ignored them. (The Invisible Land)
Then he started to notice the dead birds (The Invisible Land)
It seemed that things weren’t as they ough to be. (The Invisible Land)
Hans contemplated building a boat but lacked the timber. (The Invisible Land)
So he covered up his pictures and set out for higher ground (The Invisible Land)
above the invisible land. (The Invisible Land)
At what remained of the summit, he pitched his tent and settled (The Invisible Land)
staying long after the floods receded and the landscape returned. (The Invisible Land)
Cher oncle Howard
Seated Hermes, Found at the Villa in 1758
This bird, called the Maiastra, had magical powers
