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About Me

So easy to slip upon us the husk of those who have passed before. Floated through the open door; old loves, old dreams, young fencing masters, slaves, quadroons. So many sunk, drunk on nectars, from the flowing french vines, the full mooned mists festooning the mansions, live oaks. We walk softly, then as now never was this a genteel town. We hardly know in our inebriate passions that we are alive, how much less, then should we feel when tedious blood has seeped from our veins but go on walking through the gaslit streets, carriage drivers tilt their caps, to the river and her dark embrace.To the river, then. Forever and ever, amen.

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/16/2006
Band Members:in order of appearance: walt mcclements, helen gillet, vava voom, renée angelica, michael skinkus, mark bingham, ratty scurvics, marygoround, barnabus and alynda, sneaky pete, mike hood, martin krusche and hart mcnee, a particularly vicious rumour, raymond "moose" jackson
Influences: sylvia plath, julian cope, kate bush, joy division, swans, siddhartha, raleigh "english racer", oscar wilde, aubrey beardsley, madeleine l’engle, john gardner, a remington portable typewriter, sunni patterson, syd barret, patti smith, kenneth patchen, anne sexton, lou reed, kerouac, nick cave, kate blanchett, ian curtis, saul williams, robert graves, jim morrison, tom waites, masaru emoto, jim carroll, marie laveau, faust, dante, milton, seamus heaney, umberto eco, rimbaud, baudelaire, bataille, starhawk, the last poets, dr. john, borges, leonard cohen, godspeed you black emperor, the white goddess, black elk, gary snyder, elizabethan fashion, bosch, klimt, egon scheile, herman hesse, taoism, indigenous and pagan culture, new orleans cemeteries, hermeticism, alchemy, stone cathedrals, bagpipes, peter hook, peter gabriel, led zepplin, peter murphy, the creatures, birthday party, dead can dance, unto ashes, werewolves, lycanthropy, the moon, new wave, joan of arc, the poetic eddas, the mabinogion, ethereal goth, Voudou (voo doo or hoo doo), L’acadie(Acadiana, cajun territory), electric upright bass, Triumph and Indian motorcycles, cafe racers, Louisiana swamps, mercury, thoth, coyote, legba, loki, raven, ziggy stardust, captain beefheart, siouxie, strong buffalo, jim jarumusch, gregory corso, william blake and ernie k. doe.
Sounds Like:

poetry for your escape pod(recorded at piety street studios under mark bingham http://www.pietystreet.com/ )
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Rumi to Move

re-connect after the trainwreckcome through the tunneland we're still on the riverstill movin', still rollin'never the same thing twicebut we keep it nice likered beans and rice, yesthere is a thread ...
Posted by illusion fields on Sat, 19 Apr 2008 07:13:00 PST

her name is rio

for our mother’s sakeour hands, the healer’s calldrop all pretense and learn by doing; no-one canreally certify with any certaintythat our lessons are learnedthat we are ready, onlylife ca...
Posted by illusion fields on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:53:00 PST

mind your step

there's a call to go deeperand the path gets steeperthe gods get hungry and synchronicitygets more palpable withevery widdershins turn withintake a left and another left and the poethas left the build...
Posted by illusion fields on Sun, 02 Mar 2008 10:17:00 PST

the moon card

oh, it'd be so easy to lose it allwashed up in brackish tidesthe shoddy workmanshipshowin' up steadyin our bitter smilesthe wearin' of the backlike one long second linei'd rather be smilin' than cryin...
Posted by illusion fields on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:28:00 PST

For Vi Landry

i'm sick of writing sad poems...another laceration on our scar-studded heartsanother star winked out of our skynigh before we could light a candlefor the last one lostwhat could the gods be thinking?w...
Posted by illusion fields on Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:38:00 PST

getting published

Just a heads-up for anyone who'd like to see an overview of the blitzkreig of creativity coming out of New Orleans Post-Katrina. They are printing five of my poems.Constance: Delicate Burdens is comi...
Posted by illusion fields on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:31:00 PST

Bass Emotion (culture is yo’ mother)

the commencement of this pronouncementwas hardly hearty; came onlike the inveterate river gamblerholding high the cards, soeven a tarot readercouldn't see through to wherethis cosmic tree intendedto t...
Posted by illusion fields on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:01:00 PST

80’s redux

your blue prayers before i even knewyour name was scratched incursive, in blue paint on the frosted panesome part of you was weaving deepin through my musclesthe nerves in my nosethe warp and weft of ...
Posted by illusion fields on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:12:00 PST

seeking drummer

punk rock drummermikel,your eyes...your eyes hold the askingthe infinite question of whywere we born into this sadness?i stopped here a little whileto listen to a mixtape you had madeand drink wine wi...
Posted by illusion fields on Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:02:00 PST

Carnival Gesture

the god of fat tuesdayhave you ever seenthe gentle-eyed jester face of mardi gras?that magic light under a silverbright skybaubles aloft in figure-eightsone hundred thousand masksof the goddesses and ...
Posted by illusion fields on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 03:46:00 PST