tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140Sun, 26 Feb 2012 11:08:39 +0000philologyflash fictionconcrete poetryrelationshipoccasional childedenquotationsmetamorphosisrelationshipsartsneaker pimpslyricsphonepresentationanxietychocolatenovelemotiontypocelebrityhipsterHiatuseternityshape poetryself harmsincontestanorexiarealityanatomypartiessan franciscofrench bandabusedreammedicationoliviaphilosophydepressionlokitouchingpsychotherapydrinkingwritersblurstylenine inch nailsmoviehaikuiceshort storysuicidemonsterspainMy Fathereditingradioheadeating disordergrendeltransitlovefrostpaintingfixiesoregonpinkhiroshimatesselatebondageapplepunksongantidepressantsborderline personality disorderadam and evebloodmedian lethal doseriskaginginspirationblack rainkerouacsleepswanSoilgroup therapyhallucinationmiltonsolipsismfree stuffcyclingsexualityphysicscherry blossomimagecerisesestinaphrase of the daystageScanned Film Photographsgaydrawingclaustrophobiaoldairtranslationtattooketamineexperiencealice in wonderlandmusicbookbeowulffrenchparentsarchaeologycar crashfriendshipSunbody imagepunishmenta-bombinsomniamakeupdepeche modegiveawayipodleonard cohenhistorypoetryentropyquoteslibrettomikirilkephraseegyptegyptian culturemodelSilkmental illnessalcoholismfictionwritingwhite rainbowvancouverdrugsanne carsonA photo &amp; writing blog/virtual art piece collaboration by <strike>two people</strike> one person who thrives on the relationship between words and images. <b> Now in monochrome </b>.<br><a href="http://robclogprogblog.blogspot.com/">Visit the left brain</a><br> <a href="http://marksrandomwonderings.blogspot.com/">The Corpus Callosum</a>http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)Blogger81125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-3516391124542194561Fri, 24 Feb 2012 04:00:00 +00002012-02-23T20:00:01.713-08:00relationshipsfictionsolipsismnovel <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/extracts-from-doomed-novel-5.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-625784643683913093Thu, 23 Feb 2012 12:03:00 +00002012-02-23T04:03:00.250-08:00lyricsdepeche modephrase of the dayphrasepainThere's no time for hesitating Pain is ready, pain is waiting Primed to do it's educating Dream on - Depeche Modehttp://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/phrase-of-day_23.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-4974925170845130591Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:20:00 +00002012-02-22T07:20:00.180-08:00haikurelationshipskerouacrelationshipI read a book of Kerouac's haiku in possibly 2006(?), and wrote a few pieces myself based around his style, if only in the sense that they do not conform to the Japanese metrical standard (which is slightly awkward in English anyway). The comparison is made between a relationship and a duel in fencing, the foil being a type of sword. They war with the cruel foilsOf intimate knowledge, one two http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-approximation-to-haiku.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-8452280592721265143Fri, 17 Feb 2012 03:58:00 +00002012-02-16T19:58:00.213-08:00writersfictionnovelwritingmovie <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/extracts-from-doomed-novel-4.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-4423430310005735077Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:19:00 +00002012-02-15T10:19:00.738-08:00anne carsonhaikucerisepoetryI suppose we're into the first period of poetry relating to someone I knew now. Words may be even worse than pictures for dredging up old feelings. Possibly because words are so much better at lying. Around this period I started writing more haiku. I've always paid attention to the kireji (cutting word) if nothing else in the tradition of haiku. I like to think that this gives the impression of http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-haiku-6.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-2982616610323931328Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:02:00 +00002012-02-13T19:02:00.678-08:00rilkepoetryI have sometimes wondered how Rilke thought from day to day. Everything that he writes seems to happen with a sort of exquisitely terse slow motion. I wonder if he was frustrated by how many things he saw that he did not have the time to express, or if to him everything was perfectly focused and framed. This is possibly the best I could do writing about him. 'The bowl of roses' is one of his http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-destruction-of-artists.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-8616790666287726306Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:56:00 +00002012-02-09T16:56:00.237-08:00oliviaalcoholismfictionnoveldrinking <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/extracts-from-doomed-novel-3.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-290213864977399989Wed, 08 Feb 2012 12:04:00 +00002012-02-08T04:04:01.054-08:00cerisemusiclovealice in wonderlandpoetryWe're still back in 2005 I think. This is one of the first pieces I wrote around that time where I started to use musical images. I envisioned something like a chaotic Alice in Wonderland music video, probably with inordinate amounts of slow motion. Actually if you watch the video for Nude by Radiohead (which wasn't released until several years later) it has elements of that. Suddenly, in the http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-troublememento.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-8424448658102227297Tue, 07 Feb 2012 02:59:00 +00002012-02-06T18:59:00.320-08:00philologyhistorypoetry  Sometimes I do get rather irate about things. I am indebted to Seamus Heaney's wonderful translation of Beowulf for the fragmentary beginning 'so.'  shuffle the wordsa fan of cardsspread handfive and fiftyit is almost amazingthe lengths we stretchtonormalizespin money awayflatten our dreadinto stocky equaliser linesmaybe I shall begin with a single word. So. A fragment: surely that will http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-writing-war-in-margins.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-7346141862514602392Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:42:00 +00002012-02-05T15:42:00.037-08:00phrase of the dayphraseI lock the doors and Swallow the key And draw the curtains closed forever The Bluebell - Patrick Wolfhttp://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/phrase-of-day.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-2638409816015538343Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:56:00 +00002012-02-02T16:56:00.410-08:00fictionnovel <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:1; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/extracts-from-doomed-novel-2.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-2457969756921495324Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:44:00 +00002012-02-02T15:44:07.639-08:00anatomyself harmdrawingpoetryI left messages for youFelt them scramble past, the consonants tripping on each others heelsNoThose were not shadows on my wristsValleys of taut tendonsOr the cast of pine needlesGreen over greyI practiced until I was pallidTranslucentCould not be unrestrainedI scrawled myself with warning signsUnderline and emphasisRaised and loweredFolded myself alongThese dotted linesUntil I was small enough http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-poetry-light-source.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-8878140665475141422Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:23:00 +00002012-02-02T15:23:44.771-08:00depressionmusicpoetryborderline personality disorderI forget when it wasthat all the letters became evenly spacedwhen the wordsallmergedtogetherandicouldnotfindwhereoneendedandanotherbeganwhenthe music soregular and thuddingall the white keys vanisheda kick drum dirgewhenIforgot how to remember you as more than a collection ofpixelsa tiny map of lightandshadeanimaginingofskinina make-believe galleryperhaps everything driftedupwardsgrowing http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-poetry-dirge.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-209370081160145054Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:03:00 +00002012-02-01T08:03:00.475-08:00haikupoetryI'm fairly sure this is the first haiku I ever wrote. It's the only one I've ever tried to get published, and the only one that ever was!  I wrote it about a boy who was in one of my university Japanese classes. Half-Japanese boyThe dark wrinkles of your soleAre a scorpion I can't think of anything to change!http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/02/editing-poetry-haiku-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-540964056801654386Mon, 30 Jan 2012 19:11:00 +00002012-01-30T11:22:36.555-08:00artcontestpaintingmakeupgiveawayfree stuffSomeone I know is having a contest to give away some things, including one of her own excellent art prints. Check it out at jessbuckley.com!http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/free-stuff.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-5873506558505432721Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:54:00 +00002012-01-27T16:54:00.451-08:00fictionnovelparties <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:1 134676480 16 0 131072 0;} @font-face {font-family:"ＭＳ 明朝"; panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:roman; mso-font-format:other; http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/extracts-from-doomed-novel-1.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-5550732907463479673Fri, 27 Jan 2012 05:15:00 +00002012-01-26T21:15:00.240-08:00phrase of the dayphrase <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS Mincho"; mso-font-alt:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/phrase-of-day_26.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-1079613013291283668Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:00:00 +00002012-01-25T09:00:03.497-08:00poetryoregonThis piece was written during a drive from Vancouver to a small town in Oregon several years ago. The main focus is the noise coming off the forest during a storm at night, my memory is that I felt the oncoming cars were part of this rather than separate from it. Patterns in the air    Waving grass of open fields,    Echoing through hollow forests,The thread of hisses,    Whipping the wind,    http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/editing-poetry-oregon-dreaming.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-5774907195803001998Mon, 23 Jan 2012 23:08:00 +00002012-01-23T15:08:38.853-08:00writingpresentationpoetryI don't think that I'd ever want to stand in front of a... is pedestal the word I want? I don't think it is. Anyway, I wouldn't want to stand in front of one and just read like I'm reading from a book to a room of scientists at a conference. My writing is very alone, and it may be best enjoyed alone. I may come up with some way of presenting it that emphasizes that.http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/presentation-of-poetry.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-1029696342668449853Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:23:00 +00002012-01-22T13:23:00.234-08:00tattoolyricsinspirationpoetryI have never been asked a question. Perhaps that is an exaggeration. I have never been asked this question. But then what is a blog for, if not for answering questions nobody will ever ask? The following answers both that question and the rhetorical question. I am full of phrases. So many that they have now forced themselves to the surface of my skin, where they boil in the summer and draw the http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/why-are-you-covered-in-writing-daddy.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-2450685392160829411Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:08:00 +00002012-01-19T17:08:00.689-08:00This short piece is one of many I've written that are just an attempt to capture a moment. Whether or not the moment is real or not is irrelevant. His hand on hers I want to fuck you The world collapses slowly in on itself Forms a singularity Sucks in the universe Explodes out with A rush of returning silence What I'm thinking about changing: As always with these older pieces I sort of http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/editing-poetry-singularity-observed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-8567265839830689346Thu, 19 Jan 2012 02:12:00 +00002012-01-18T18:12:00.135-08:00phrase of the dayphrase <!-- /* Font Definitions */ @font-face {font-family:"Cambria Math"; panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4; mso-font-charset:0; mso-generic-font-family:auto; mso-font-pitch:variable; mso-font-signature:-536870145 1107305727 0 0 415 0;} @font-face {font-family:"MS Mincho"; mso-font-alt:"ＭＳ 明朝"; mso-font-charset:128; mso-generic-font-family:modern; mso-font-pitch:fixed; mso-font-signature:-http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/phrase-of-day_18.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-6071420819870165880Wed, 18 Jan 2012 19:18:00 +00002012-01-18T11:18:07.609-08:00bloodparentsrelationshipsflash fictionfictionwritingabuse<!--[if gte mso 9]> <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]> http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/new-flash-fiction-justburn.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-1589623031661964859Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:24:00 +00002012-01-16T06:24:03.248-08:00emotionself harmphysicspoetry This worldSeems to be surrounded on all sidesBy fragmentdrops of consciousnessThat fail to congealAs lava Into anything sphericalAs a water droplet,Fail to give rise to The sense of a simple breadOr an angular Latin verb,Fail to obey the basic rulesOf emotional physicsLike:No crying in the kitchenNo knives in the bedNo bleeding from the eyes when nobody can seeNo books without covers falling http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/editing-poetry-emotional-physics.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-764607085443080140.post-1276174767384264326Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:51:00 +00002012-01-14T15:51:00.121-08:00nine inch nailslyricsinspirationIt may be oversimplifying a little to say that this is a solipsist song, it feels like more of a song about reciprocative selfishness. But that idea of sanity or grip on reality slipping away that pervades many Trent Reznor songs is here, and that is what draws me. This is pretty much all the lyrics. Harsh and direct and angry. That last pair of lines 'things aren't as pretty on the inside' is http://browneyesandlenses.blogspot.com/2012/01/lyrics-that-inspire-me-3-only-nine-inch.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (whiterainbow)0