Psyche Delectus: The Portalland Calling

I heard the owls hoot
two nights running.
They were closer, 
louder than I had heard before.
It took me a day's confusion
to sift the answer:

Concentric circles repeating,
like polka dots,
like breadcrumbs,
structured shadows
caught in a sideways glance
and the echoes of their shapes
plain in his light.

two tin cans
with a taut string between them.
My hand wrapped gently around the one.
I raise it up 
to my open mouth.


Recommended Listening: 
Oneohtrix Point Never 
A Pact Between Strangers 
from A Pact Between Strangers
  
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Saturday Sketch: Moon Knight

Here's another Moon Knight sketch.  This one from is from no particular time period.  I was looking at Bill Sienkiewicz's run (in the later issues) and some of Keith Giffen's work for Marvel Comics from the mid 80's (Nightmask, Justice, Daredevil).

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Psyche Delectus: Ghosts of the Implosion

The skin peels away in revelation

Despite all bluster, all scrambling interference,

the inevitable end comes.

Recommended Listening:

Wojciech Kilar

Opening Titles

from The Ninth Gate OST

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Psyche Delectus: Happy Birthday H. P. Lovecraft

His tales haunt us,

recounting dread

within the nested chambers 

of time and dreams.

They inculcate us with knowledge,

vast and terrible,

of the primal, 

the outer dark.

Recommended Listening:

Cryo Chamber

Azathoth 1

from Azathoth - A Cryo Chamber Collaboration

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Psyche Delectus: Obsession

Smile, only a pageantry
Sadistic animus lurks
Menace is invitation

Recommended Listening:

Wojciech Kilar

The Beginning

from Bram Stoker's Dracula OST

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Psyche Delectus: Ignition

All fires begin with a single spark.

Recommended Listening:

The Crystal Method

Trip Like I Do

from Vegas

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Psyche Delectus: Better Out Than In

False remorse is the fruit of a prideful goblin.

Recommended Listening:

Throbbing Gristle

Hamburger Lady

from D.o.A. The Third and Final Report

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Psyche Delectus: The Soundless Tongue

Words are useless.

Recommended Listening:

Cocteau Twins

When Mama Was Moth

from Head Over Heels

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Psyche Delectus: Believing the Seen

Some visions are undeniable.

Recommended Listening:

Boards of Canada

Reach For The Dead

from Tomorrow's Harvest

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Psyche Delectus: Come Out, Come Out

The truth only knows one goal.

Recommended Listening:

EMA

To Leave, With Love

from Past Life Martyred Saints

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Psyche Delectus: The Strength and The Failing

All fires run out of fuel.

Recommended Listening:

Lorn

Acid Rain

from The Maze To Nowhere / Part 2

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Psyche Delectus: Entrance to the Tunnel

All the complex machines of Mankind
cannot keep the dead from arising.
The Past is never over,
only buried.

Recommended Listening:

The Damned

Dead Beat Dance

from Return Of The Living Dead OST

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Psyche Delectus: Conflicting Reports

Seeth ruth elle eyes.

Recommended Listening:

Harry Escott

Unravelling

from Shame OST

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Psyche Delectus: Winter's Return

Coagula reveals the pattern.

Recommended Listening:

Lisa Gerrard

Gloradin

from The Mirror Pool

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Psyche Delectus: Older than Human

Ignorant, we shamble about,
while the ground beneath our feet
is steeped in Ancient blood.

Recommended Listening:

Desiderii Marginis

The Monkey God

from Hypnosis

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Psyche Delectus: Inversion

Inside moves out and back again.

Recommended Listening:

Apoptose

Nordlicht

from Nordland

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Fear Fodder: Merry Meatmas

May Darkness be with you throughout this holiday season.

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Psyche Delectus: Intermediary

Emissary of the beyond,
is the message,
a warning.

Recommended Listening:

Access to Arasaka

Nostromo

from Vessel EP

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Psyche Delectus: Invisibles Day 2017

Time reveals all things.

Though the dark half of the year is full upon us, there comes a day for rekindling the fire.  Each year on November 23rd I celebrate the re-ignition of failing light with a new piece of art dedicated to one of my favorite comic books series, The Invisibles.

On November 23rd, 1995 Grant Morrison involved the readers of his comic book series The Invisibles in a group act of sigil magick.  Check out the original letters page from the comic to see how the idea was initially presented.  Join me today in my annual celebration of The Invisibles Hypersigil!

Recommended Listening:

EMA

Fire Water Air LSD

from Exile in the Outer Ring

Previous Years:

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Psyche Delectus: Fall of a Great Height

It is a fear, a relief, a grief, a light, a warning, a hope, a dread, a release.

It comes or us all.

Recommended Listening:

Ramin Djawadi

Light of the Seven

from Game of Thrones Season 6 OST

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Psyche Delectus: The Hole in the Heart of America

It has always been here.

Recommended Listening:

Harry Escott

Unraveling

from Shame OST

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Psyche Delectus: Thought Binder

Some prisons have no escape,

save destruction of that which is.

Recommended Listening:

Desiderii Marginis

Hallmark

from The Evergreen Tree

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Psyche Delectus: Split the Sea

With a breath,
The world is changed.

Recommended Listening:

John Paesano

The Defenders Main Theme

from Defenders OST

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