Night Terrors

[rowens]

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[Keith]

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Nice Job Rowen
Really enjoyed your voice and images, but missin your written word

[abu nuwas]

As so often, to hear this in your accent, gives it a kind of rhythm which might not appear from the page. It is a neat little cameo of childhood, and its nightmares. Where did the pics come from?

[billy]

just fuckin excellent is all i can say. your voice feels very black and white, as in of another era.
i think the reading is bigger than you, you really do need to put the text up as well rowens.
the vocals were really clear and work well in expressing the timbre of your voice, but the text would be an added level of connectivity. at about the 3rd read, i closed my eyes and i was with you.

thanks for the reading.

a question, your previous readings were pretty garbled, what did you do differently for this one?

[rowens]

i never had night terrors,
but i know a guy that did.
he used to go outside at night
and scream that the elephants
were coming.

now the elephants were bigger than me.
this i knew, and it was that that i felt
when i was awoken, and realized what he was saying.

he knew what he was saying.
one night it was the Nazis.
he was twelve years old,
and the year was 1989.
but it was the original men
from the short filmstrips
we watched in library the year before.

those were the nights when the tv
went off the air.
after a few late shows and movies,
the national anthem was played
and life became surreal enough to dream.

i remember the drip of the kitchen sink
as if it were yesterday.
i would try to wait till the dripping
became in time with the clock on the wall.
my unconscious would hypnotize me
that way, i could dream of things that were
too vague....and when i awoke to hear him

out on my lawn in his stone age pajamas,
shouting that the elephants were still coming...
i would always remember that though i couldn't see them,
they were bigger than me.





I'll put the words up. I have to type one of the poems still. And get them all on this computer. I feel that a few of my poems are probably better heard than read, and some of them I read differently at different times.

The pictures, I simply found. Though I've had my sister draw similar things for me in the past, she's not around lately.

The recordings had already been made, and I had to record the recordings onto the computer. I have an awkward relationship with technology, so simply reading a poem to a computer screen makes me uncomfortable.

[billy]

okay, so how did you record them, everything i've tried just ends up as garbled crap. i'm envious when i hear good quality vocals. leanne and jack also have some

[rowens]

There was just a little tape recorder set up, and on Night Terrors I was closer to its microphone. Do you have a microphone for your computer?

[billy]

yeah and it's a half decent one but my the interference is bad,

[just mercedes]

Thank you for posting this -- I enjoyed listening, and it was good to have the words there as well. You read really well, clearly and with life and expression.

I don't think anyone else can read a poem as well as its author can. I really like to hear poets read their own work.

[TwistedAngel]

the 5th stanza is awesome..loved the image of the dripping tap an clock as you drift off to sleep

is ful of great lines like 'stoneage pyjamas' tho dunno wot "but it was the original men" means ?
will have a listen to this at work..i have speaker issues at the mo pfft

really enjoyed this