Looney Speaks Weekly, Vol XXX

Posted on May 20, 2012

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By Brian “Ponderosa” Looney

Looney Speaks Weekly, Vol XXX

Well it’s Friday again, and the first one to feature artwork.  This photograph is from one John D W Macdonald.  The man’s enthusiasm and his knowledge of the arts have repeatedly impressed me.  So thanks to him for this picture:

West Coat Way

  • Fantastic perspective.  The branches hinder sight, spider-web your vision.  Dawn or dusk, I’m not quite sure.  But there is a sense of suspense.  And also a calmness.  If dawn, then we await the birth of a new day.  If dusk, then it is the end.  The colors are dark and cool: a good, nostalgic sight.
  • Now feel free to listen to:  Brian Looney- Fearful Day, and read along if you like.

Thanks again to John for his great piece.  If you have ANY art you feel would compliment these readings, please do not hesitate to contact me, to e-mail a submission.  Have a great day.

About Brian “Ponderosa” Looney

I wait tables for money, but I write for a living.  I’m from Albuquerque, NM USA.  Somewhere along the way I landed a BA in English, but I don’t remember much of that.  I am one of those literature snobs–I like the high-brow stuff.  I write all the work on my site, in addition to the manuscripts and the magazine submissions.  Sometimes they publish me, sometimes they don’t.  I’ve gotten used to it. View all posts by Brian “Ponderosa” Looney
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Check out the poem which this photo has been chosen to illustrate! Brian Looney- Fearful Day, and read along if you like.

  • johndwm May 19th, 2012 at 8:00 PM

    Many thanks for the post Brian. I love this picture too. Interestingly you are the first to note it. Last summer I journeyed a few times from Dunfermline in Fife to the Isle of Skye – sleeping overnight in the car and I’m not even sure myself which way I was going as to whether it was Dawn or Dusk! In fact I like the ambiguity you have created as well as your analysis of things visual which I had not thought about. We have had wonderful Scottish painters – the colourists – Peploe, Cadell and Fergusson. Not as well known as the Fauvistes in France – but the colours in the photo bring this to mind. Now I will explore the poem which you have used this to illustrate. Thanks again!

  • johndwm May 19th, 2012 at 8:10 PM

    Your poem is, as so often, mermorising and hypnotic and the sounds of the half rhymes and assonance bind it together and increase its inevitability … there is a certain dread in the way your voice and measured words mesmorise- a bit like the glorious inevitability of the intoned Greek Chorus in the Tragedies of Sophicles! ( Have you ever had that comment before?!) I am very pleased to be allowed to comment again on your site. It is an immediate way of communicating with you!

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