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Me and Her

Bard Underwater

A Mask of Mint and Tears

Glance

Your vile deeds did not stop my heart

A Carbon Fingerprint

Sestina For My Lover On A Dying World

Dream Valley

Face Space

Harping On

Help Me Written In The Sky

The Photo, No Longer a Replica

A Conversation with a Rogue Taxidermy

An Idea

Corporate Enslavement

Leavings

Style notes for Autumn

Infinite night

Anomaly

The Shepherdess & the Harper

A Transit of Blue

Politics

Gasmask Anthem

Not a sonnet, but clichés and metaphors in homophobic conditions

A Mixtape for Tortola

Hear Me Drown

Galaxial Wreckage

Anticlockwise

Untitled

Green tape / dream landscape with ghosts

Talk Funny

Wanted: Life Model. No Experience Necessary.

in a single pull

Placental

Fidelity

Harps and Gas Masks

First, Decide

EMERALD CITY

No-exit maze

After

Fossil

Easy Listening

Jormungandr

Jo Needs

Wheels of time

Torch, a Noun

STILL BREATHING

They Were All Made of Stars

The Old Cassette

Round One

The only way I can keep breathing, is to make art

a starry-eyed dalliance

Mixtape (or Track 4 is the one)

THE COUNTER APP

The After Years

Light or No Light

I Say All This And Other Things

Oi

The Left

Shape Shifting

Capture

Nuclear

An Indefinite Wobble

A Little Longer

The Harper

FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MONTHS

Sick Monkey

Yon Gob Agape

for a night at peace

Completing the Puzzle

Incompatible

Spores of stars

Toxic Love

Press Play

Bypass

OUR RELATIONSHIP HAS BECOME A SERIES OF CLICHES

Marguerita Sky

Only by the Sun’s Light is the Moon Visible

Toxicity of the Antiquity

Circle Line

Memorizing the Words

Fatherless Child

My Friction Ridges

The Influence

The weird tune

Trapped In My Maze

SHORT INTERVIEW ON CASSETTE

Obsoletion

Spiral

SOUNDS GREEN TO ME

Blank Verse

Where Have all the Dreamers Gone

Taped

Safe Hands

Mixtape ’96

Hypnotized

An hour and a voice

Cataract Philosophy

A Cassette Tape Has Two Sides

Vortex

Compilation Tape

Faceless

wild tape

Of stories within

All Things Green, And What They Mean

Test card heat wave

The Spiral Face

Ich liebe dich

Spiralling In

Cassette

re-flect-ion.txt

Love, And Be Silent

dry

Living Up, Spiraling Down

Memories Replayed

Set for Cass

Scrambled

Twist

Just Press Play

Melt

Sadim

Sweets on Neptune

Set-Up

For the Plinth

The Periodic Table

Identity

Long Gone Bye

Rewind

Of Bees

The Blood Comes

‘Green’ Mixtape

Surya

Fingerprint Men

Tape loop

A Story of Instant Coffee

The Hypnotic State of Following Suit

Rail Line

As Himself

Metamorphosis II

Pause. Listen. Wait.

Perfection has no Sound

Influence

Tra la la, la-la la

The Dream

Please let me finish

Notes on a past country

Life in a Whorl

Molten Muse

Fire Music

Chorus

Labryinth

Mixed Tape

Busk

Tale Of The Tape

Eyes Shut and Golden

A Decision at Dawn

Midas’s Lover

Summer 1991

Agent Smith

Goddom

C90

Imprint not Recognised

Midas Touch

Conceit

The Playlists Of My Life

at the end of the itch

Who Goes Where?

Sun Worshipper

Wrapping Up the Evidence

Obliterated

MOONSTRUCK

Mixed Tape with A Cause

the sleepers

The Photoshoot

Blank tape

Currents

BEFORE THOUGHT AND ACTION

What Tom Found in the Loft

Catch you inside

Amenome

Fragility

Glistery

How We Listen

ID

Nineteen

The Man with the Maze in his Face

Quizzing the Faceless

Milk & Honey

Lost in Memories

Freeze Frame

Just Cause It Glitters Doesn’t Mean You Call It Gold

A Quick Dose of Nostalgia

Modern Times

Ageless

The Alchemist

The Eyes Have It

Dreaming in Gold

How It Goes

Get In Line

The Art of Idolatry

Lost Identity

The Midas Touch

Paragraphiti On The Cusp Of Jewrotica: Living With Olives

Saving Icarus at sunrise

Thought Loop

Fool’s Gold

Invisibility

That’s Why I’m Through With You

Naturalisation

To the Editors, Historico-sociological Perspectives in Music Technology

Mother and Child

Two Feet

Unnameable

Our country

I want you to love me so hard

Gold

It’s time for us to FF not REW

Permutations

Too Much

Destruction/Construction

Worth its Weight in Gold

Nature and the Void

Cassette Tape

Hip-Hop

YOUR VOICE

Vortexes

Golden Boy

Part 3

Holding space

Museum Piece

REMEMBERING

Lost Voice

Mask

Solvent

Spooled

Golden rush

Clean Hands and Clean Feet

You Are Not the Fallen Chandelier

Why Here?

Bath Time

Midas Asshole

Reel to Reel

Addicted to Love: Mixed Tape from a Stalker

WATERING

Cleanliness

Midas

Torrid Summer

The Green Bicycle

Heredity

Nude

Thumbelina State of Mind

1983

Off the beaten tracks

How to be a mermaid in times of trouble

Stay Put

Reel to Reel

Skinship

ERUPTION

Pure

SUN BED

Grandmother

Opener

TRANSCRIPTS FOR Y.

GOES AROUND COMES AROUND

The Golden Woman

Impressionists

Jules Rimet

Blue Blue My World Is Blue

An Eulogy to Simplicity

Divergent

Per Aspera Ad Astra

In The Land of Far Away

French Republican Time

An Exhibit of the Artist’s Work

AGUE

My Son’s Voice

rewinding

REBIRTH

Rewind – Fast Forward – Stop

Not Too Cold/Not Too Hot

Before This

Your Freedom

Personal Canon

Attention, or, Carats are Bad for your Eyes

Playmates

hip hop, ambient folk

We

When the Eyes Beg the Candle’s Gaze

Self proclaimed album

Walking the Waves

Golden Dreams

Mama’s Whispers

Evanescence

I Belonged to You

Indugence

Excuse me

The Way

PAPER TRAIL

Golden Girl

Before the Gold

Steadfast

Treasure

Just Another Superstition

Phones, homes and totem poles

Where are you safe?

#Needleman

Hands, feet and stripes

A Mother’s Lap

New History

STANDING ON THE EDGE

Wash, Rinse, Dry

Titan

Unburrowed

Gilt

Circle

CHEMICAL UNI

if you head east on the pulaski, you’ll see for yourself what it means to be alive

Sunrise

Above It All

The Difference Between

Mother & Daughter

My DNA

This little piggy

Living Statue

BEFORE THE ALARM

Mother’s Arms – a villanelle

Playing Statues

Flagpole

Things unsaid

Come Undone

THE BIRTH OF SONG

EL DORADO

The Bath

Pink Panther

Feet in the Bowl

To the Apocalypse

Drowning in gold

Golden Girl.

Telegraphy

Woman to Woman

Celebrity Revealed

Call Home

Footsteps

Nectar

Wet Nurse

Stylite

Stung

Kissing the Pink

I Wash Your Two Feet

Foothold

This Little Piggy went to market

Urban Wanderer

To the sea

APRIL FOOL’S DAY

Cleansing Ritual

Déjà vu (You’ve heard it all before)

Carved out of stone?

Petrichor

Fulfillment

MISSING PIECE

BALLAD OF A GAELIC PROPHET

A Muddy Day

There Are No Lilacs

A Letter from a Daughter to her Mother

April Skyline

My Butterfly

Brink

Taking the Time

What There is to Lose

When there are no words

ROOFTOPPERS

Ties That Bind

Tall Ship Tilting

Memory Lane

Vantage Point

Daily Divination

Witness

So Young

MEASURE OF MAN

The Child’s Bath

Out

The Drunk

We are the winning team, xx

Aloof Aloft

An Angled View

Bad News

BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN

Telemachus

DAINTY DUSKS

Totem I

Biting Down

the choice

dance angel bird, dance

The Con-Trap-Shut

Standing on the Patriarchal Lens

Mouth Trap

The Rising Fall

TANGENTIAL

Jump

Twigs and Bits of Metal Nonsense

Above All That

ASTONISHED

Fall Someday

After the Big Storm

Your Sticky Wicked Home to Roost

Learning to Love

EAR STONES

AUTOMATON

Hands and Feet

Pudong-Puxi, Shanghai

enough misdeeds to make one believe he’s actually been alive

Little Circles

Emptiness

Mother and Child

Ablution

Letter from Leinster

Mr. Funny

Things to work on

Sting

Clear the film

In Between

OLD FEET

Purgatory

VOTIVE LIGHT

The Middle of the Moment

Fetching

Revelation

Can you

Cold feet, warm heart

Verticality

the slow turn of water

Looking outward

War Baby

Martha

GAPING SILENCES

Extreme Adventure Dude

Did you have fun?

Mother and child

Incongruence

Branches of Absurdity

The Gladiator

Mouthpiece

Fiddler

Land of My Birth

THE VENTRILOQUIST

hotsy-totsy

“A Mother and Child Reunion” Paul Simon

The collector of sounds

an absence of chaos

Clean/unclean

When the Sea came to me

Walrus

Scale

Miscarriages (Or The Bird And Other Things)

Precipice

An Education

Fractures

Chomp Champ

Perspective

Pewter

Dental Excursions

Romulus

Biting the Hand

It’s lonely at the top

Hush

Your Hair Is Dark Now

She said her mouth was like the sea

The Training

Our Lady

By footsteps

Rise above

Strange Medicine

The Oganess

A Fixative

Beneath the shell

A BLOT ON THE SUN

Yakety Yak: Lipstick On Your Collar

It’s a Cruel World

Perched

When I was a boy

Wonder

Angels and Squids

THE GRIP

The Overview

Pinnacle

Portrait of Mrs Dupin

False talk

Monument

False Teeth

Cappello Romano

White Noise

You Need a Hat Here

Pink Sun Air Guitar

Draupadi

Beneath the Delicate Fabric of her Heart

SWEET DREAMS

Shades of Family

Lead Singer from ‘Simon and the Stylites’ Believes His Own Hype

Sweet Lady

Lowry

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