Brandelyn N. Castine

I am the author of Everybody Plays the Fool, a novel, Spoken Silence, a volume of poetry and U.G.L.Y. a novel.

Feb 232010

I printed your poem out on thin sheets of paper and spread them out around me so i could be surrounded by your words My mind became clouded with your thoughts and my thoughts and my thoughts of you and the swirling constant memories that followed Like the image of your hair and the [...]

Feb 182010

List #9 Feelin’ some kind of way
 

“I don’t know. I’m so tired and evil I don’t seem to be able to think straight.” JB
My eyes opened at 5am and i couldn’t go back to sleep. All I wanted to [...]

Feb 162010

List #7 Emotional Hangover

Today is a day to sit outside and watch the sun play in the leaves. For open windows, a random mix of music, heavy on guitar strings and lyrical content and that clean house good [...]

Feb 132010

I’m tired of being so serious all the time. All of this self discovery, soft music with guitar strings, candle light, cabin fever, Nyquil haze, despising my job, but loving the kids I work with, I need a break. Some laughter, a day off walking down Haight street, buying random stuff I [...]

Feb 102010

I fall asleep each night to the sound of your voice and the unspoken words that remind that I am not alone in my desire to be close and warm from the sensation of understanding I’m able to lay my head down to rest next to a small well worn stack of books heaped [...]

Feb 062010

Thursday, January 21, 2010

“Re: Haiti: Passing on to you something that may help lift us from this sorrow.”
Sasha Kramer sent a message to the members of Sustainable Organic Integrated Livelihoods (SOIL).
——————–Subject: Kouraj cherie: Update from Port au Prince
This afternoon, feeling helpless, we decided to take a van [...]