Xmas Poem

Birth
2000 years of birth.
Each moment,
A new moment,
A rebirth of being
All the varying miracles
Of new materialisation
In the visible
Pico seconds of time
Lost to everything.
Birth of self
And this (k)newness
Each day
For 2000 years
A child
Born
In
Bethlehem.

Cosmic Whores

Razor red edge of dawn ride
Sky orange;
Burning silver sun,
She threads the spinning web of day.
Dark battles fade off, faraway,
Set players for another play.
Life’s scene goes on quite in between,
A see-saw set in what is seen
‘Cos senses sent, perceive the dream…

And you enchantresses, cosmic whores,
Space’s beauty ‘tis in all, with all,
Your delicate graces can do no [...]

Barry Flanagan & Albert Munsell

In 1991, after ‘retiring from trade’ as Flanagan put it, he commissioned me to find a book entitled “A Color Notation” written in 1905 by Albert Munsell who lived in Massachusetts.
This system of defining color by hue, value and chroma Munsell invented so he and his friend, Robert Louis Stevenson who lived in California, could [...]