tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33000468601922921252024-03-05T23:52:38.291-07:00On Bread and Buttermilk the Girls Confess the ZodiacA Diary by Toni OswaldToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-80698780712210482912020-11-24T11:35:00.002-07:002020-11-24T13:37:34.178-07:00<p><a href="https://www.gesturepressandjournal.com/">SIRENS by Toni Oswald</a> </p><p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiWRbKJBOgP5IFxSdq_ukn-qyJ2jVX50RMNXl2gM2mP4e6Agl-EuX9-GsJmR-ezVvh-WITMLkFcgqp7zD3uUhFWK2wTCR0jfOxYZRzY5ckd0UtfHYyiIIo1WusUP8jgVbOXM6fD__AeH7/s1078/email-messages.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1078" data-original-width="750" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhiiWRbKJBOgP5IFxSdq_ukn-qyJ2jVX50RMNXl2gM2mP4e6Agl-EuX9-GsJmR-ezVvh-WITMLkFcgqp7zD3uUhFWK2wTCR0jfOxYZRzY5ckd0UtfHYyiIIo1WusUP8jgVbOXM6fD__AeH7/w446-h640/email-messages.jpg" width="446" /></a></div><p> Ilustrations by Caitlin Alexandra</p><p>Cover by Kelsey Cruz-Martin<br /></p><p></p><p>Available at Gesture Press and Amazon Books </p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1<br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-76694133982374638012020-11-24T11:32:00.003-07:002020-11-24T13:38:04.577-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qzlaaeAEZOQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="qzlaaeAEZOQ"></iframe></div><p><br /> Sirens is here is her is red white blue and black, nature springing. Sirens of sound poetry on one page slight, the next a garden of cusping thought. Toni Roxanne’s language is her here moon rays smiling, crying, knowing, feeling the day come with its fantastic promise. Sirens is here to love in action, her a gift, a charm, a poet. Thank you Toni.<br /> <br />Thurston Moore</p><p> </p><p>Film by Jonas Leuenberger</p><p>Music and Sound by Max Davies <br /></p><p></p><p> </p><p>SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon Books</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1 <br /></p><p> <br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-23621348630381382762020-11-24T11:30:00.006-07:002020-11-24T13:38:29.521-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Gsf4ZMFx9yk" width="320" youtube-src-id="Gsf4ZMFx9yk"></iframe></div><p><br /> This is extraordinary! Reading it out loud with my boyfriend, he said he loves surrealism, but I think this book is a form of magic revealed. Toni Oswald's poems are so unique and brilliant, they deserve a cult following! I will join that cult, and do whatever the poems tell me to do!<br /> --CAConrad, author of While Standing in Line for Death</p><p> </p><p>Film by Jonas leuenberger</p><p>Music by Max Davies <br /></p><p></p><p> </p><p>SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon Books </p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1<br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-74849069159057434622020-11-24T11:29:00.002-07:002020-11-24T13:38:51.734-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7jwn0woRbZg" width="320" youtube-src-id="7jwn0woRbZg"></iframe></div><p><br /> As she falls and as she flies, Her speaks to us in riddled whispers. “You have everything you need,” Her reassures us. But are we being fooled into an old recipe, oscillating between violence and love? Toni Oswald has created a precise poetic world, drawing us into a painful reality all-too-familiar. “Things are much stranger then we have imagined.” Indeed. By way of love, she guides us through her dangerous and intricate landscape. Buckle up, dear reader. Prepare to fly.<br />HR Hegnauer - author of Sir</p><p> </p><p>Film by Jonas Leuenberger</p><p>Music by Max Davies <br /></p><p></p><p> </p><p>SIRENS out now on Gesture Press and Amazon</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1 <br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-45464361140827498692020-11-24T11:26:00.003-07:002020-11-24T13:39:12.609-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LXxjVv4xBmk" width="320" youtube-src-id="LXxjVv4xBmk"></iframe></div> <p></p><p>Sirens is the lyrical story of Her which means it is the story of you and I, just as it’s also our story too, and a story that has yet to be, a story that is now, and a story from before (which is to say it is spun from the fabric of myth). If David Lynch died and reincarnated into the body of a little girl with wings who hatched from an egg painted by Leonora Carrington’s ghost, Sirens would be the fairy tale this version of Lynch would then write. Toni Oswald has paid homage to the Dadaists and the Surrealists equally in this creation of story and sound; this hybrid narrative about a hybrid character that asks the reader to engage in this fever dream about being born and giving birth, about dying and being resurrected. Sirens then shape-shifts into a recipe for baking blue pies before reshaping itself into a ritual and feminist manifesto before blooming into a wound that is stitched together using embroidery to draw a palimpsest of the sacred pussy upon the page. The synesthesia in Oswald’s language borders on mysticism as the reader witnesses light become smitten with the velvet darkness of the void, to then watch the void thrust itself into the mercurial surface of a mirror where shadows play in the threshold between reflection and the corporeal. Sirens is an interactive narrative that invites us in so we can explore all the serpentine trajectories of the Self. I love this poetic narrative so much I’m tempted for my next tattoo to read: “Let’s be friends even when there is no us” because that is exactly how I feel about the book from which this line was excerpted and the author who composed it.<br /><br /> —Sarah Elizabeth Schantz, Fig </p><p> </p><p>Film by Jonas Leuenberger</p><p>Music by Max Davies <br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sirens out Now on Gesture Press and Amazon</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1 <br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-17411614801093348952020-11-24T11:20:00.006-07:002020-11-24T13:39:59.818-07:00<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wkTMdYPiV4w" width="320" youtube-src-id="wkTMdYPiV4w"></iframe></div><br /> My New Book Sirens:<p></p><p>In Sirens we encounter the multi-bodied, simultaneous emergent, ever-emerging, Her. Her(e) mystical hybridity conjuncts with real life emergencies offering dazzling, pained views of the charnel grounds where we might die a thousand female deaths and finally and also: resurrect. Toni Oswald’s writing teaches us how to endure – and ultimately – celebrate the most difficult verbs. <br /><br />Selah Saterstrom,<br />author of Ideal Suggestions and Slab</p><p><br /></p><p>Film by Jonas Leuenberger</p><p>Music by Max Davies<br /></p><p> Available on Gesture Press and Amazon:</p><p>https://www.amazon.com/Sirens-Toni-Oswald/dp/0578773945/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3OJ28MEADKMBO&dchild=1&keywords=sirens+toni+oswald&qid=1606242011&s=books&sprefix=sirens+t%2Caps%2C257&sr=1-1 <br /></p><p><br /></p>Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-12869387250771268632016-01-30T07:07:00.002-07:002016-01-30T07:07:31.997-07:00On the Lawns of Morpheus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Singing at the Laughing Goat with Max DaviesToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-37573100444916302732016-01-26T11:09:00.002-07:002016-01-30T06:56:47.898-07:00 Day Crack Into Moments (Notebook series)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Johnne Perez and his Sculptures<br />
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Carmen Hawk, Mariah O'Brien & Lucia Santini Ribisi (Italy)<br />
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Photo of Ic Explura by Carmen Hawk<br />
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My Mother at age 12<br />
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John Spencer and me London 2003<br />
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All art ,writing and notebook collages by Toni Oswald Copyright 2016Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-5525221644803832462016-01-26T10:51:00.001-07:002016-01-30T06:57:17.624-07:00You Really Were the Prettiest Star!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1"><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.3">In tall trees apples grow,</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline5/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.5">no one knows where we go.</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline7/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.7">Forever seams,</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline9/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.9">sows,</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline11/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.b">grows</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline13/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.d">Bowie shines, it's like snow. </span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline15/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.f">Talking inside out,</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline17/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.h">Talking sideways</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline19/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.j">when all those beautiful clothes were ruined in the pool.</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline21/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.l">Real good food</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline23/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.n">Style</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline25/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.p">cocaine</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline27/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.r">We just tore up the experience.</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline29/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.t">X</span><br data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.$newline31/=10" /><span data-reactid=".1.1.0.0.2.1.0.0.1.v">I
cried in bed this morning when I heard the news that Bowie had passed.
He was such a huge inspiration for my art, music and life. I'm crying
again now. RIP Mr. Bowie, you really are a starchild, hold now, dancing
in and out of light.</span></span></h1>
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Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-88778049806533985472015-02-05T14:29:00.001-07:002015-02-05T14:29:53.236-07:00How To Discard The Life You've Now Ruined - Lara Glenum<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"></span>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sneak in to the
“shame hole”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Remove the
squirming pink sack from the gray pelt</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">& put a second
body inside</span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">or</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> hang the body from
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">to</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> those who’ve drowned
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">while</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> choking on
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Hang the loose skin
in a weeping museum</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Use the smallest
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sew the buttons
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Plant the
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Let them trail down
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Use the spine as a
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">the</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> soft nationalistic
marches of the “bodies without organs” collective</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Make tiny beasts
out of the teeth & strands of black hair</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Sew the animals
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Advertise your
crimes as “the failings of a zoo”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Tack the two legs
onto your own hips &</span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">gallop</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> through zones of
agony</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">Now you’re a
four-legged animal downed in the onslaught</span></div>
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<span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">You’re a weeping brute
clogging the light-hole</span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;">in</span></span><span style="color: #4d4d4d; font-family: Garamond; font-size: 11.0pt;"> the eye of the sun</span></div>
Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-78643583534697836812014-11-20T13:27:00.001-07:002014-11-20T13:27:25.542-07:00Theater Carnivale Days!Photos from back in the daysof Theater Carnivale; a Punk Rock/Avante Garge/Vaudevillian theater group featuring, Stephen Holman, Aaron Osbourne, Johanna Went, Adam Tankell and myself. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen and I performing on the BBC4 Tony Wilson Show in Manchester, England</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Aaron, Johanna, Stephen, Toni, Adam</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen and me as Felicity the Butterfly and her agent Ricky the Roach on Bug Night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Me and Stephen on Birth Night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adam, Johanna, Stephen, me & Aaron on Fish Night</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Stephen, Aaron, Adam and myself on Fish Night</td></tr>
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Collage art and writing by Toni Oswald CopyrightToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-29854722848999786202014-10-15T15:11:00.001-06:002016-01-30T06:58:25.668-07:00WE are Prayers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Last piece cut up from Patti Smith's Dead Poppies on the album Radio Ethiopia<br />
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Photos of John Frusciante and myself by Dave Morgan 1998 All over writing Toni OswaldToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-65296940132618054892014-10-10T18:22:00.003-06:002016-01-30T06:58:44.978-07:00Let Your Lover Fall Out<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Writing by Toni Oswald copyrightToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-83152557068598010432014-09-30T16:17:00.001-06:002016-01-30T06:58:58.907-07:00Fleeting<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Writing by Toni OswaldToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-8048753009949626302014-09-27T08:43:00.000-06:002016-01-30T06:59:07.135-07:00In the Afternoon<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Photos by Sonya KoskoffToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-73930354181669395052014-09-24T11:27:00.002-06:002016-01-30T06:59:34.142-07:00Children of the Potential<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Art drawings and writings by Toni OswaldToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-22745152449322973562014-09-23T16:31:00.002-06:002016-01-30T06:59:44.990-07:00Missed<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Collage and writing by Toni OswaldToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-69574883542104378672014-07-06T09:00:00.000-06:002016-01-30T07:00:25.275-07:00In The REalm Of Pom<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A parasol, a throne, a footprint<br />
studded with fireflies<br />
specks of frayed light<br />
in Afghanistan<br />
he turns pages and it all comes back<br />
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books were nailed to ceilings<br />
concealing life<br />
memory<br />
the wings of a library burning down<br />
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the gun was taken off her head<br />
accusations that someone did not know how to pray correctly<br />
as the sword cut the hand's last act<br />
a pomegranate<br />
a pomegranate<br />
a face concealed<br />
yes, accusations that someone did not know how to pray correctly<br />
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machine gun<br />
pom pom<br />
machine gun gun<br />
shattered skin of walls<br />
she is dazed<br />
in paths of blood<br />
where Muslims weep<br />
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sound fossils<br />
buried cassettes<br />
he tried to remember<br />
moving under<br />
sentences of death<br />
children's limbs scattered<br />
a large stone thrown at his chest<br />
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fire fire<br />
fields of poppies<br />
wasted vigil<br />
dangerous guerillas<br />
exile in Peshawar<br />
fire fire<br />
look now<br />
city ablaze <br />
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Art and writing by Toni Oswald copyrightToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-77643655830247237372014-07-06T08:51:00.001-06:002016-01-30T07:00:41.207-07:00perch without pockets<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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but I wanted<br />
light all around<br />
hybrid dry<br />
similar to reactions<br />
boys will be<br />
the book<br />
was known how<br />
streets off<br />
we'll never get<br />
floppy <br />
seen them all<br />
thinking about time<br />
you have never known<br />
our taboo conversation<br />
circuit mode<br />
finally came back from her havana<br />
i cannot speak<br />
socially <br />
the door has closed behind<br />
living fire<br />
air like saved soul<br />
one meter in diameter<br />
dazzle he would not<br />
remark about<br />
the tide of pimps<br />
the vision displayed<br />
i had no dough<br />
all in gauze white<br />
i didn't want to go<br />
by back buzz<br />
world of coupling<br />
rich knot<br />
deck milk<br />
itself voice<br />
undone open<br />
perch without pockets <br />
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Art and writing by Toni Oswald copyrightToni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-57198502600967240222014-07-06T08:38:00.001-06:002016-01-30T07:00:48.146-07:00The Diary of Ic Explura Live<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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out and behind,</span></div>
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mask it was lifted</span></div>
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blade thrown down</span></div>
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is not me, her cried, it is not me.”</span></div>
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below where all waters meet leading by magic sets the stone the
beauty that's curved the morning is</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;">her
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<br />Toni Oswaldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01637871561685327080noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3300046860192292125.post-21045704051910437112014-01-19T12:22:00.001-07:002016-01-30T07:01:18.786-07:00TIME GOTTA GOTTA GET YOU (In Mind)<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Time broke pipes down into sound</span></span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">road loads of lines</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to catch timing of spokes</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">you wrote it off</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">broke the wheel and told rhymes</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">joked around and watched</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">floating daggers take a higher ground</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">look out son you sound old at only twenty one.</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">given not better </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to give is to live</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">unseen unless, </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">useless out with out</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">so give go ahead</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">try mind</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">try mind out</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mind far out</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">fart brain no help</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">find out</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">out of time</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">doubt no help</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">slow mind</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no mind becoming</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; min-height: 18.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span><br /></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">your route in time</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">is limited</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no doubt about it</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no doubt</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">far out mind </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">circles</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">circles mind </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">no doubt</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">out far the mind </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">circles mind</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">to mend, to mind, </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">mine knows, </span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">nothing mine</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">here </span><br />
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">who goes?</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Hear!</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Who tows mind?</span></div>
<div style="font: 14.0px Times; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;">
<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;">Line tower.</span></div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">You know not your own mind.</span> </span></td></tr>
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