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Thanks for Meeting Me Here (poem)

Posted on January 17, 2025 By caracabe

This poem is in honor of David Lynch. Even though (or because) it’s written by a heteronym, I think it’s true to my own weirdness and dorkiness, and it was fun to write. I can’t think of a more fitting tribute.

Including a graphic version because the line breaks sometimes get messed up in online text.

Thanks for Meeting Me Here

In memory of David Lynch

A stone knife in a display case in a chilly museum,
a clearing in a forest of marble columns.
A clarity of itself surrounds the knife, invisibly.
Visitors see a blur of other. Outside, the rain too
has fallen a long way from home.
Grass, crabgrass, and purslane drink.
Soggy worms churn skyward.
The museum is a granite shrug.
The knife is the question.
The ripples that copulate across a puddle are another,
the guard’s blue shoes a third.
Clouds crumble to drizzle, dissolve a log to dirt.
Questions have no answers, only translations.
In the courtyard cafe
sits a boy with earbuds and a lazy eye. That acned head
will never be preserved in a glass case in a cold gallery
where people come on a Saturday afternoon for his face to show another,
then sit at round metal tables
questioning kombucha, quizzing perrier, interpreting wine.
What’s displayed never is translated. That’s the reason for the glass.
The visitor’s complicit in every case.
The owls around the museum, drowsing for moonlight—
Let’s try a thought experiment.
Let’s pretend they are owls. They’re smart enough.
Let’s consider over coffee how knife and owl are different
and we’re not.

— Basil Cartryte
2025-01-16

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tiny frights podcast #49: “When Spirits Return, Requesting a Favor” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo

Posted on October 24, 2024 By caracabe
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Learning to be dead is a difficult lesson. Episode 59 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “When Spirits Return, Requesting a Favor” by LindaAnn LoSchiavo, from the Walpurgis 2024 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-59-when-spirits-return-requesting-a-favor-by-lindaann-loschiavo

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/d8f6fcce-9aa1-4485-8218-425ec146df12

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tiny frights podcast #58: “How Green Was My Valley” by Robert Beveridge

Posted on October 17, 2024October 17, 2024 By caracabe
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Some workplaces have trouble retaining employees. Episode 58 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “How Green Was My Valley” by Robert Beveridge, from the Walpurgis 2024 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-58-how-green-was-my-valley-by-robert-beveridge

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/d6d0c23b-5a27-4e9b-8928-0e442f6afc0c

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tiny frights podcast #56: “Just before awaking” by Patricia Lawson

Posted on October 3, 2024October 3, 2024 By caracabe
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The dead just want to help. Episode 56 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “Just before awaking” by Patricia Lawson, from the Halloween 2024 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-56-just-before-awaking-by-patricia-lawson

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/2b769007-ed91-4e2d-9210-ca0939c8fcfd

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tiny frights podcast #55: “Dark Light” by Holly Payne-Strange

Posted on September 26, 2024 By caracabe

It’s the eternal struggle. Episode 55 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “Dark Light” by Holly Payne-Strange, from the Walpurgis 2024 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-55-dark-light-by-holly-payne-strange

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/d08f687c-b7fd-4e42-a033-ca79eebd35e7

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tiny frights podcast #53: “This Year for Halloween” by Thomas Gorn

Posted on September 12, 2024 By caracabe
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Sometimes you have to remove the costume. Episode 53 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “This Year for Halloween” by Thomas Gorn, from the Halloween 2023 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-53-this-year-for-halloween-by-thomas-gorn

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/979a9f93-9f6c-428a-b190-0db17f6123d2

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tiny frights podcast #52: “The Language of Angels” by John Alex Hebert

Posted on September 5, 2024September 12, 2024 By caracabe

Celestial discourse may not be melodious to human ears. Episode 52 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “The Language of Angels” by John Alex Hebert, from the Walpurgis 2023 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below. (NOTE: due to autocorrect, the author’s name is given in the podcast as “John Alex Herbert” rather than “Hebert.” We apologize for the error.)

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-52-the-language-of-angels-by-john-alex-hebert

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/3bead2fa-cdc7-42c5-b604-9de3cde06671

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tiny frights podcast #51: “A New Life in Red” by Douglas Gwilym

Posted on August 29, 2024 By caracabe

Every beginning requires something to end. Episode 51 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “A New Life in Red” by Douglas Gwilym, from the Halloween 2023 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-51-a-new-life-in-red-by-douglas-gwilym

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/3ea94448-da16-4e47-82ea-7cb9f433167f

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tiny frights podcast #50: “Filling Graves” by Diane Funston

Posted on August 22, 2024August 22, 2024 By caracabe

Self-care is important. Episode 50 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “Filling Graves” by Diane Funston, from the Walpurgis 2024 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-50-filling-graves-by-diane-funston

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/b68d2d9a-e9c1-4ca7-a465-1bd20c8665b1

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tiny frights podcast #48: “What the House Told Me” by Jennifer Rodrigues

Posted on August 8, 2024 By caracabe

Possibly most of our episodes should come with content warnings, but this one has a bit of explicit language. Episode 48 of the tiny frights podcast features the poem “What the House Told Me” by Jennifer Rodrigues, from the Halloween 2023 issue of the zine. Check your usual podcast sources or use one of the links below.

Bandcamp:  https://caracabecreations.bandcamp.com/track/tiny-frights-episode-48-what-the-house-told-me-by-jennifer-rodrigues

RedCircle: https://redcircle.com/shows/bd120807-a3c4-49a2-b380-80cc1a2c7442/episodes/29dd447c-4088-4dd6-9f7d-dc7d90827b4e

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