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.
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 great… kind of all over the place… I guess so is wind, but I don’t think that was an intentional connection. Anyway, there wasn’t much actual wind in the movie🤷♀️
You did a much better job at making it an entity to be feared.
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
To break the habit of a couple of months, and as Bilwis and the I wouldn’t let me go, here’s an extra something that comes nowhere near anyone’s idea of the haiku form:
Ha! I used to spend my summers on my grandparents’ alfalfa farm. Fields can be surprisingly dangerous. Kids can damage crops by playing in them, too, which means less money for farmers… that’s probably the main reason for all the boogeymen😂
First the locusts came
Now the dancing specters twirl
Crops wither crows feast
This is so good! You packed a lot of tragedy into it and the middle line is so creepy🖤
Over the fields of grain
blow winds. Madness is not in
ghosts but in the winds
___
The howling is its own
pulse of tension and release -
the wind sounds. I howl
___
One says she sees ghosts
out by the wheatsheaves - it's false,
they're spiralling winds
___
Winds raise husks and straw,
blow them in my eyes - my tears
spirits and monsters
These are incredible! I think the first one is my favorite, but it’s hard to pick🖤
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.
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 great… kind of all over the place… I guess so is wind, but I don’t think that was an intentional connection. Anyway, there wasn’t much actual wind in the movie🤷♀️
You did a much better job at making it an entity to be feared.
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
My harvest hat’s dry:
Dry as stalks sheared by these toes
Dry as powdered I
To break the habit of a couple of months, and as Bilwis and the I wouldn’t let me go, here’s an extra something that comes nowhere near anyone’s idea of the haiku form:
This heart be dry as
This hat be dry as
This breeze be dry as
These stalks be dry as
The harvest sky
That lies above
As dry as the toes
That scythe beneath
As dry as dry as your powdered I
Ooo I do love this longer version🖤 Bilwis is a tricksy one, more compelling than he has a right to be.
Love love the middle line! And now I’m just thinking of powdered I… could be useful😏🖤
Thank goodness we live
Surrounded by trees and hills
Fields too dangerous 😳
Ha! I used to spend my summers on my grandparents’ alfalfa farm. Fields can be surprisingly dangerous. Kids can damage crops by playing in them, too, which means less money for farmers… that’s probably the main reason for all the boogeymen😂
Oh! I love your vocabulary in this one!
Ah! Thank you!
Whirling through the fields,
Stealing grain, and crushing dreams,
Its joy, is your pain... 😎