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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Over the fields of grain

blow winds. Madness is not in

ghosts but in the winds

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The howling is its own

pulse of tension and release -

the wind sounds. I howl

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One says she sees ghosts

out by the wheatsheaves - it's false,

they're spiralling winds

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Winds raise husks and straw,

blow them in my eyes - my tears

spirits and monsters

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Honeygloom's avatar

These are incredible! I think the first one is my favorite, but itтАЩs hard to pickЁЯЦд

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Thanks I saw a clip from this movie The Wind a kind of folk horror set in a pioneer cabin in the MidWest and it inspired me. The clip was in the docu about folk horror called Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched - clips of the movie on YouTube were not so good.

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I have seen that movie! As someone with A LOT of sensory issues, I fluffing hate the wind. So I had to watch the movie. Which was not greatтАж kind of all over the placeтАж I guess so is wind, but I donтАЩt think that was an intentional connection. Anyway, there wasnтАЩt much actual wind in the movieЁЯд╖тАНтЩАя╕П

You did a much better job at making it an entity to be feared.

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A.P. Murphy's avatar

Yeah, it seems the way the writer and director talk up the movie in that documentary is much more interesting than the film itself. Somehow I figured you might have seen it, being an authority on all things folk horror, esp in a US setting.

Have you seen the documentary BTW? I have it to view here if you can't find it elsewhere

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DRC-UO2ifHHq-9ixFNImxsE3woC3WfMQ?usp=drive_link

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