Folk Horror

Adam McOmber

Barn owl. Horned owl. Screech owl. Long-eared owl. True owl. Tawny owl. Moonlit owl. All the things an owl sees (rolling downs, black tree branches, green-tinted sky/starlit). Spotted owl. Grey owl. Great grey owl. Forest owl. Tyto. A dark river. A screen memory. Fulvous owl. What remains the same when the landscape is deformed? Yellow Owl. King Owl. Mottled Owl. Ural Owl. The hidden landscape of atmospheres. A whole oak tree, burnt to ashes. Boreal Owl. Hysterical Owl. Hysteria occurs when the subject questions or feels discomfort about his symbolic identity. Painted owl. Whiskered owl. Human figures in the forest at midnight. They wear wooden masks. This is called the "abyssal dimension." Blakiston's fish owl. Athene. Northern pygmy owl. Are there mice in the underbrush? There are mice in the underbrush. Mountain owl. Mottled owl. A discussion of symptoms. Who is standing there beyond the wall of trees? This often happens when we refrain from asking questions. Scops owl. Aegolis. If someone was weeping, would you hear them? Snowy owl. Short-eared owl. The real is that which keeps repeating, that which reasserts itself no matter how you seek to flee. Spot-bellied owl. Dusky owl. We are perpetually noticing things that should have been obvious. Haunting is a disorder of time. Ghost owl. Burrowing owl. Improvisational logic. The past is so much safer, isn't it? There is nothing more to be cured in me.