RebusThe book fell off the shelfand I saw your name on the pagein sentences written a century before. In the light late at night…. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #144: A Bright, Wicked Light
Saltings Crawdaddy Emrickwas ladled and bathedin swamps and rhetoric.A life like a card trick… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #143: Saltings
The KissWhat more can a kissdo? Can it cure the insecure,securing wedded bliss?Are the half-parted lips… You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #142: Kissed and Cured
Keeping Things Whorled He asked if I knew any enduring truthsand the only thing that came to mindwas that no truths were enduring.It wasn’t meant to be flippant or holier-than-thou, but how I moved through the worldor how the world moved through me…. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at … Continue reading Musicalia #141: Keeping Things Whorled
If anything, Pete Nickerson and Gary Gahan, the duo behind Spanned Canyons, should be proud that they nailed the premise of their new conceptual album. The Only Perfect Way for This to End is a nine-track expedition into icebound hell, echoing Dante Alighieri’s ninth circle, where the damned are trapped in a vast frozen lake. Instead of … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Spanned Canyons: The Only Perfect Way for This to End
Inlapping Flicking tongues in timeagainst their slantern rhyme, a fable in hen’s teeth. You can get the rest of the poem and the playlist at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #140: Inlapping
Another review from FrightFest for the re-release of Malpertuis. There’s no subtlety in the opening of Malpertuis. The film begins with an image of Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky, while a child and an adult discuss their reading, offering the audience a set of instructions for what follows: “It’s pretty, but it’s difficult to understand.” “Somehow it makes … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Malpertuis
From FrightFest Uk, a root-scoped cosmic, folk horror vision from Latvia. The movie opens spectacularly: a grizzled, blindfolded man drags a chain across the desert until he reaches the sea, where he casts it outward and parts the waters. Above him rise two immense legs, ending not in feet but in hooves. Carrying the chain … Continue reading At Horror DNA: Dog of God
In medias res Awake at two, and the old scarsstill buzz like rooms full of sitars. A twang in the ashes, brass knuckle radio,a hundred untuned Dixieland banjos. If it offends thee, then pluck it out…. You can get the whole poem and the playlist over at The Drunken Odyssey. Continue reading Musicalia #139: A Twang in the Ashes
Stephen McClurg 