The erection of an academic bronze statue of the
Beach Boys in the Arctic Circle.

The ocelot-patterned fur coat that has slipped
from Miss Planck's headless shoulders.

Reading Lovecraft on the hovercraft as it speeds
across the emerald waters of the Lido.

Sixteen year-old Mariuccia Monteverdi, wearing
nothing but a skin-tight neoprene tank-top.

Ugly rioting inside the stadium and a tear-gas charge
by traditionally placid Swiss police.

A haunting double-exposure of the topiary ice-skater
in the Godwottery Garden at Featherstonehaugh Manor.

The umpteenth instance of an indiscriminate
kleptomaniacal urge.

That bright insouciance the world sometimes assumes
when reduced to 1:32 scale.