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I remember you here
At the Royalty Café,
Relaxed in your crumpled,
Bespoke, suit
As glazed you’d stare,
At a universe, invisible
To my eye…

The waiters see it…
Your spirit is here
Drinking slightly watered whiskey,
Unseen on the chair next to me;
While I silently ponder
Your resonance on this Earth,

Those notes you plucked
Of my life time,
As has this Island
Strung us both;
Heart in hand
Forever
In ethereal [...]

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 [...]

Central London in the rain.
Losing my way to a Cork Street Gallery I once knew well.
The pile of sand has the wrong color.
A catalogue of inventions.
The loss of a friend.
Purple prose on an unforgiving windy day
When attitude offends form.