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Writings of Michael Hawes

Smudge Fan

Banking Stories

How I Became A Banker

She Came Through The Fire

To Catch A Thief

You Cannot Touch The Principal

Coffee Cup Cantos

A Kiss On The Wind

A Parlay With Something Other

A Show of Hands

A Tale Of Three Suzukis

A Viking Burial

Bayou Justice – Alea Iacta Est

Between Two Swords

Caterpillar Mojo

Chicory

El Palomito

Encounters On The Good Road

Ghost Story

How I Got My Feathers

How I Got My First Pay Raise

I Beg To Differ

I Opened With Old Man

It's In The Gumbo

It's The Cat You Don't See

Last Fish In Texas

Medicine Show

Motivation, Ability And Dried Currants

My Matriculation

Never Squat On Your Spurs

No Justification For Such A Saucy Cant

Off Into The Pines

Oil Change

Panther Patrol

Prairie Oysters

Rocket Science

Rolling In Trifolium Repens

Security Then And Now

Settling In To A Dreamless Sleep

Seven Kinds Of Choke Cherries

Shoeshine

Spirit Wolf

Spring Moon

That He May Forget His Wounds

The Art of War

The Final Dash To The Woods

The Least I Could Do

The Sign of The Fish

Tiny Gulps Of Air

Tormento de Mil Cosquilleos

Viking In Texas

When He Stopped, He Was Sand

You Can Swim Back

You Can Tell By Their Ears

Yukon Breakfast

Correspondence

Absence Of Desire To Take Advantage

Alchemists

Behaviour Patterns Of The Spirit

Build A Better Mousetrap

Congenital Twins

Copper Glimmers On The Pewter Chop

Dancing Backwards Up The Hill

Do The Math

Ein Wort an Carolin

Endeavour Instead To Adapt The Words

Flowers Return After Trampling Hooves

馬薇薇

Prothalamium

Seldom Seen, She Can Be Heard

Sputnik

Start With a Single Acorn

Still Ice

Subtle As A Twig Vibrating

The Fruits Are Gleaned By The Returning

They Need To Go Home

Three Debates

Three Texas Cherokee Pajos

Truth Is the Price Of Freedom

Tumbleweed Letters

Two Eyes Standing

What Happens After You Die

Without The Albatross

With Respect (2009)

Essays

A Bestiary of Wordlets

A Brief History Of The Philippines

Acipencer Transmontanus Languida

A Cup Of Coffee

After The Crows

A Handful Of Salt Water

Alternatives For The Psychotropically Shy

A Maltese Umbrella

A Martial Arts Gumbo

A Mother Pelican

Apricots and Occam's Razor

Archaeopsychopathy

A State of Normal Sobriety

A Tale Of Two Kitcheners And The Canadian Dream

Båtbyggaren Strand

Butter Chicken Tuesdays

Cayoosh Pie

Chocolate Chips & Chicken Soup

Circumambulations (of a tall americano)

Clear As Mud

Comorbidity and The New Normal Conquest

Counting Creeks

Endeavour Instead To Adapt The Words

FYI

From Altoids To Cocoflavanoids

Good, Bad and Ugly

Good To Go

Harder To Spell And More Often Hyphenated

Hat Trick

Home Sweet Home, Harpocrates and A Grain Of Salt

Last Of The Starched Khakis

Logica Lyncis Rufus

Making Dignity Possible

Omne Ignotum Pro Magnifico

Only A Farmer

On The Border

On The Nature Of Faith

On Women and Horses

On Women and Philosophers

Proper Ground For Pondering

Righteous Windignation

Riding The Bullet

Sammy The Barber

Slain By Incongruity

Some Words To The Close And Holy Darkness

Steer Into It

Stories Told When No One Is Listening

Talking Apholitics

Tended To In the Natural Way

The Courage To Be Examined

The Croaking Of Ravens And Trills Of Thrush

The Future Is Sesquipedalian

The Kybalion of Seuss

The Number Of Days

Theogitations On Religious Taxonomy

The Relevance of Astrology Revisited

They Share Without Being Trained

This Compass

Three Debates

Thunder At The Well

Truth, Lies and Diagnosis

Very Thick Indeed

Welcome To Tantalum Springs

What Can You Do?

Whispers In The Fog

Year Of The Rooster

Novella

Train To Heaven

Pipe-fitter Stories

A Kelpie Can Gae Twa Roods

Breakfast With Ben Hur

Cutting Pipe

Everybody Is Scared Of Something

Take It On The Chin

Thermocouple

Poetry

A Texan Explains Nietzsche

戴溪

為美珊寫的兩首詩

Lone Wolf

Stories Told When No One Is Listening

Truck Stop

Two Fraser Canyon Poems

Where Runs A Restless Sea

Windows of the Soul

Woman

Postal Stories

A Certain Je Ne Sais Quoi

A Damn Good Marine

A Latter Day Sikh

A Liu Shap Guy

A Scrap Of Blue

Big Boys Don’t Cry

Bringing The Bacon To Work

Corvus Urbanus

Don't Wipe Your Moccasins

Goose Bay, Gannet Rocks, a Blue Budgie and The Little Black Duck

Hammer It Like Hagi

Heavy Petting

If

Luck Has Nothing To Do With It

Men In Motion

Mentawai Heels

Monsoon Angel

O Milagre do Pássaro

Peering Into The Abyss

Recognizing Your Own

The Ancient Lusitanian Art of Dendropractic

The Flat Tinkle of Cheap Metal

The Myth of Sisyphus

The Trail of Tears

Tiptoeing Into The Extraordinary

Toledo Steel

When The Student Is Ready

Reviews

A Mantis Carol

Dust Ship Glory

East-Tec Eraser Review

Monkey or Journey To The West

Myths of the Cherokee and Sacred Formulae of the Cherokees

Quasimodo & A Bowl Of Eggs

The Rom: Walking In The Paths Of The Gypsies

Three Books by Carroll Quigley

Zorba The Greek

Short Stories

Blue Light Cemetery

Jigsaw Girl

The Eighth Floor

Travel Stories

Between The Rockies And A Hard Place

Dancing Across The Pond

Dos Pajaros Tristes en Tarragona

Du Bastille et de la Confiance

La Fanciulla Che Ha Dormito Con Me

Lynn Valley To Tangiers On A Shoestring

Peetie Wheatstraw

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