{"id":451,"date":"2011-03-14T22:47:20","date_gmt":"2011-03-14T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=451"},"modified":"2011-07-21T02:19:39","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T15:19:39","slug":"dry-splashes-of-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=451","title":{"rendered":"Dry splashes of words."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This one began life years ago with a project (from Melbourne? Please let me know if you remember it) called Fridge Poetry which was an online version of the word-fridge-magnets which were popular more than ten years ago. There was a collection of maybe a dozen random words which you could manipulate\/ rearrange to create your own poem. I created \u201cto wheeze, not gentle\u201d (possibly an homage \/ rip-off? of Dylan Thomas\u2019 \u201cDo not go gentle into that dark night\u201d, probably the world\u2019s best-known villanelle. It became to not wheeze gentle and was published in <em><strong>phobiaphobia<\/strong><\/em> (Picaro Press, 2007.)<br \/>\nAfter uploading an audio version to ccMixter, <a href=\"http:\/\/ccmixter.org\/people\/speck\/profile\"><span style=\"font-family: mceinline;\">speck<\/span><\/a> made it even more surreal by using a 1970s phonorgan that he picked up at a flea market for $8! I found a photo of a pretty sophisticated early (70s) French synth and emailed Speck to check if it was the same as his. He replied &#8220;Nah. Mine&#8217;s not nearly so sophisticated. It&#8217;s just a cheap kids toy.\u00a0This is what I have, except mine&#8217;s red and says phonorgan where this one says phono organ.&#8221; The photo speaks for itself&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>There is something very dadaesque in both the poem and the background story. Couldn\u2019t be more random if we tried!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"450\" height=\"25\" data=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/dry-splashes-of-words\/r:1;t:100\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/bigcontact.com\/feed-player\/robwalkerpoet\/dry-splashes-of-words\/r:1;t:100\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-454\" title=\"phonorgan-11\" src=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/phonorgan-11.jpg\" alt=\"phonorgan-11\" width=\"461\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/phonorgan-11.jpg 461w, http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/phonorgan-11-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 461px) 100vw, 461px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This one began life years ago with a project (from Melbourne? Please let me know if you remember it) called Fridge Poetry which was an online version of the word-fridge-magnets which were popular more than ten years ago. There was &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/?p=451\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=451"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":809,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451\/revisions\/809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.robwalkerpoet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}