‘Child 98’, painted as his daughter Mary sleeping

In the garden shed, Yetta

When Yetta’s mother is asked

Yetta listens to the house at night

When Yetta sleeps

Reading the storm glass

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Keys, lightly touched

Watching a nineteenth-century film in the twenty-first century 55 Keys, lightly touched 56 ‘Day by day, good day’ 59 A pencil draws a line across a ground 61 The alchemy of circumstance and chemistry in five photographs 66 The years before 68 Amateur magician 69 A bone flute 70 An optical experiment 71 Ink lines for Agnes Martin 72 All this 75

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