Zachary Brett Charles
advice
(Down the road from your memory track 10) life is hard life is a bust it’ll give you a charge it’ll turn you to dust through it all a...
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Poetry
My reason for composing poetry is layered. In another word, manyandone. It is to lay down an understanding of myself as an artist and storyteller (words I find interchangeable for reasons I will enumerate at some point) for both myself and whatever audience the work finds, as well as to share the process of creation of my body of work
A storyteller’s art is process. It is to, beginning with their very own breath, change the breath of their listeners by the variation of the flow of energy of their story. There are innumerable tools and paths by which to accomplish this.
As a homo sapien I understand myself better and increase the projective resonance, to borrow from Charles Olson, of my art when I understand the tools I have used and the path I have followed). It is to step out of my body and look at myself from a third person perspective; to understand myself as a whole greater than the sum of my parts; to understand the parts as wholes themselves; and to extend the parts of myself available to my own understanding.
It is also for fun.
Projects
Current Work
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when i needed help
(Down the road from your memory track 9) when all I knew was blackness Mama and I swam within your blood I could feel you toil but I was...
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my own search
(Down the road from your memory track 8) i’m heading north on I-5 saddled in for the day i'm leaving Bend for Vancouver Island why is a...
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assassination
(Down the road from your memory track 7) the heist was over we girls were planning what to do with our haul done with all the...
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Reflection on Bugs Have Invaded Las Meninas and Winding Ways
These 2 projects have been the start of my 2024 Poetry Postcard Fest. I had figured doing a bigger project or 2 and then cutting them...
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Reflection on Poetry Plaza reading
https://youtu.be/iiNdrDx_FL0?si=0zB1w4BBlDrHBxY9 Recently, I was lucky to work with a man in my neighborhood who considers himself an...
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the heist
(Down the road from your memory track 6) meet me in the mornin’ meet me when the cock starts crowin’ on Greenwood by the butte I’m...
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survival / realization
(Down the road from your memory track 5) Survival you’re gonna make me lonesome when you go singin’ with the crickets about the blues the...
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adolescence
(Down the road from your memory track 4) it seems you’ve got it in for me you say i can’t remember how to act my vision twisted out of...
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change
(Down the road from your memory track 3) there was a change in the weather robins came out to sing I tried to sing along but the birds...
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a lifetime
(Down the road from your memory track 2) we sat together in Audubon Park as the dawn brightened I look down at you and felt alight but...
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leaving home
(Down the road from your memory track 1/first draft for group inspired by Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks) late one mornin’ I was lying...
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The story I experience when I listen to Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
This will be my second foray into a collection of poems inspired by a musical album. The first was a response to the Beatles' Sgt....
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The Hunt for the Hand
The following story takes place in the world of Exandria, after the events chronicled by the cast of Critical Role in their first...
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to WCW (IV)-
tinnitus as a symptom of bombs and waste disrupting the harmony with our ears (sorry r.d.) Paul’d say that’s a zen lesson Jay’d...
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to WCW (III)-
but here we are looking at a self portrait of a dutch renaissance painter let the rose petals blow away in the tornado of bombs dropping...
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The Windfall
It happened! As the Poetry Postcard Fest approaches, the universe has bestowed me with a gift. The winter ‘97 issue of The Kenyon Review,...
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to WCW (II)-
an Outlaw discovered covered in the hoods of their executioners to get news from poems people die each day in misery and from the graves...
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to WCW (I)-
after all that writing I am disappointed you couldn’t work through the mystery of gender as you did the rose and pink locust // the...
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Going into my 2nd Poetry Postcard Fest
I would like to take this space to do two things. One: reflect on lessons from last year’s fest. Two: set some intentions for myself for...
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Sakeland
scent of hot sake sake it is not always always how you make it ha- happens that it is what matters the scent scent of fermented...
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On suspension of disbelief
Suspension of disbelief - the temporary freezing of your standard logical framework, usually in order to appreciate (understand and...
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