Showing posts with label Twin Peaks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Twin Peaks. Show all posts

9/22/25

Drooling or Melting or Staining the Sheet (Three Interconnected Dreams)...

Woke myself up from a nap, was having trouble seeing anything, was stepping on and bumping into stuff on my bedroom floor as I attempted to segue from my bedroom to my main room. Finally made it to the doorway leading into that main room and there was a deer standing in my main room. I gasped, stepped back into the bedroom, shut the door, and felt panic and uncertainty about what to do next. Thought about calling my mom, but was still having trouble seeing and figuring out how to use my phone. At some point, I finally realized I only THOUGHT I had woken myself up and was stuck in dream land and then made an effort to wake myself up again. Thought I had done so a second time (still had trouble seeing and confusion), then realized AGAIN, I was STILL in bed. I don't remember the details of the second dream state that well.

Then I made an effort to wake myself a THIRD time and this time when I'd woken myself up, I could see better (or I actually turned on the light) and was staring at my bed with confusion, because a light purple blanket was covering the bed and I'm someone who doesn't regularly make the bed let alone sleep on top of the covers. Then I internally worried that someone had somehow snuck into my home and made the bed for me and who knows what else. Then I slowly began to pull down the covers that I had apparently slept on top of and there was a dog treat (which looked like a Milk-Bone biscuit) near the top of my bed and it was wet as though something had been licking it. Mind you, I don't have a dog in my home in recent years. Then the dog biscuit started drooling or melting or staining the sheet.

Then I realized I STILL hadn't actually woken myself up and I started to worry that perhaps I was dying. It's not like I've never had times before where I thought I had woken myself up from a dream and then realized I hadn't, but it doesn't usually happen three times in a row, with three different variations. Then I finally DID manage to actually wake myself up. Unless I just THINK I'm typing this but am still in bed. This is part of the reason I don't frequently take naps.

On a side note, the dog treat under the covers kind of reminded me of a hotel that puts chocolates on the pillows. Except the dog treat was in my own home, on my own bed, underneath the covers, wet, drooly and if it had been left for me, I didn't know who had left it or why.

On another side note, the deer in my main room, after I was finally awake, caused me to think of the white horse in Twin Peaks. (I'm not going to analyze that right now, but I will say I'm not on any drugs, other than my seizure pill). Furthermore, when sitting in the passenger seat earlier today, I did see a dead deer in someone's front yard.

6/17/25

NEW! I am delighted to have two poems newly appearing in Misfit Magazine Issue No. 40, Summer 2025!

"This flesh ripped inside dreams or is it
part of reality now? This headless body.
This bodiless head like some form of contraband
floating above the broken red
bed frames in the dark space
with shrapnel firing inside the cylinder
of my brain. Let's rock. I can't drive
my way out of this collision course."

the beginning of my poem "Dream State Collision Course Filled With Secrets", one of two of my poems newly appearing in Misfit Magazine Issue No. 40, Summer 2025


Also in the Books Received and Acknowledged section of this issue of Misfit, is a small Review of my poetry chapbook "REVOLTING" (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024). Thank you very much to Alan Catlin. "Cook is master of disambiguation, of obsessive images featuring detached body parts, doll’s heads, and the like, sort of like a nightmare of disarticulating dream states. Often the reader feels as if the words, the body parts in the poems are revolting against the poem/the self. It’s uncomfortable but it’s always eye opening and intriguing. Not your standard poetic fare."
If interested, you can acquire your own copy of "REVOLTING" from the publishers here - https://www.culdesacofblood.com/books

Or within my own Blood Pudding Press shop here - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1851916682/new-revolting-by-juliet-cook-2024-poetry

1/30/24

Another NEW (Mini) Review of my Newest Poetry Chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards"

"This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability."

Thank you very much to James Lawson Moore for his mini-review (and photo) of my newest poetry chapbook, "Your Mouth Is Moving Backwards" (published by Ethel Zine & Micro-Press in December 2023).

Read his whole review below and consider getting a copy of this chapbook for yourself (or for a poetry loving friend) from one of the links below.

From the Ethel shop - https://www.ethelzine.com/shop/your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-by-juliet-cook

From the author's own Blood Pudding Press shop - https://www.etsy.com/listing/1653667391/new-your-mouth-is-moving-backwards-a-new

"Juliet’s new chapbook is a limited run, handmade release, out by Ethel Zine & Micro Press. The poems therein are as much influenced by Twin Peaks as they are by the poet’s own inner turmoil. This is art of the bizarre and the horrific, and yet it’s strangely beautiful in its vulnerability. This is a book that cannot be missed.

Juliet Cook is JLM approved, with a bottle of Coke."


8/22/21

New! Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records features me reading two of my poems with creepy sound effects!

Thank you very much to Drew Coomer's Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records for featuring me reading two of my poems - "Red Glass Ceiling" and one of my Flesh World poems in LLGFR #36!

I love the sound effects he surrounded the poems with including the Red Room/Black Lodge phonetics in Flesh World! I also love the red stop light cover art!

Give it a listen HERE - https://lostlonggoneforgottenrecords.wordpress.com/2021/08/20/juliet-cook-red-glass-ceiling/?fbclid=IwAR26YI_wc2IMo7eLsyTZDBf4t1dg-yj94rgWBY_R8r3z9mXjUVqZ8RjJhF4

11/2/20

NEW! Three of my Twin Peaks inspired poems are making an appearance in DIAGRAM 20.5!

I am delighted to have three Twin Peaks inspired poems appearing in the new issue 20.5 of DIAGRAM!

"INVADED CORES" ❤️- "CAPTIVE COHABITATION" ðŸ’™- "IN MY DEATH BAG"🖤

http://thediagram.com/20_5/cook.html

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You run into the wall
and it opens, conveys you
into a dark place.  The door
bangs shut and locks itself.

The handles eject regurgitation.
Your feet stick to the floor and turn
forward and back in an endless limbo.


12/2/19

11/14/19

NEW in Burning House Press - "Every Room Whispers Itself into Your Ear"!

"In this room, someone will tell you she can cast a spell
in order to reveal who your real friends are,
but what if you find out you don’t have any real friends?"
in my poem, "Every Room Whispers Itself into Your Ear" at Burning House Press (NO MACHINE WITHOUT A GHOST theme, guest edited by Mauve Perle Tahat, with art by Moriah M. Mylod)

read more HERE - https://burninghousepress.com/2019/11/14/every-room-whispers-itself-into-your-ear-by-juliet-cook/

9/4/17

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical! - Three collaborative poems by Michael Bernstein and me!

"I am a carnival horror show ride that was meant to be safe
for children but keeps snapping their necks
or breaking into their little heads accidentally
invading their brains with imagery that is not even
PG-13, I never will be. Or else I'm lying. I'm lighting
my hair and entrancing a freak show nose bleed."
Delighted to have three collaborative poems by Michael Bernstein and me appearing in the wonderful Rag Queen Periodical!

8/29/17

NEW in Rag Queen Periodical - Four Collaborative Poems by j/j hastain and me!

"The nuns change color,
every definition of red. 

They dive out of quiet limbo
towards bloody sainthood. 

Some catch them as specter witches,
as a cosmic diagram"

Thrilled and excited to have four of j/j hastain and I's collaborative poems appearing in Rag Queen AND bearing mention of Twin Peaks!!!!!!

"We love Twin Peaks at Rag Queen, so in honor of the series finale, we'll be posting works that center, in some way, on themes of duplicity all throughout the week!

Today, we have four collaborative poems by one of our favorite frequent contributors, Juliet Cook and new contributor JJ Hastain!"

5/31/17

TODAY (May 31) is the last day The Laura Poems are available in the Blood Pudding Press shop!

Today is the last day of May and the last day that The Laura Poems are available in the Blood Pudding Press shop, so get your Twin Peaks inspired chapbook from the shop while you still can!

HERE - 
https://www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPuddingPress?ref=hdr_shop_menu&section_id=21550966

5/25/17

A little less than a week to get your copy of The Laura Poems...

"So long ago her smile disappeared. Years
she’s been drawing it dark. Red, black; the ants
in the sugar bowl have consumed all the sugar
and their pincers are a massive mutation.
An invasion spiked into infestation."
from a poem within "The Laura Poems" by Juliet Cook, temporarily available again in the Blood Pudding Press shop.

5/17/17

Twin Peaks Returns!

In less than a week, Twin Peaks Returns!

If you’re a fan of Twin Peaks AND poetry, you might want to get yourself a copy of The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook, which is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again for a short time only, HERE - https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

5/2/17

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook (temporary revival of the first Blood Pudding Press poetry chapbook ever, in honor of TWIN PEAKS)!

The Laura Poems by Juliet Cook is temporarily coming back to life, for the month of May 2017 only, in honor of the revival of Twin Peaks!

This was the very first chapbook that the Blood Pudding Press shop made available, over 10 years ago, in 2006.

Now available again, HERE - 
https://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/the-laura-poems-by-juliet-cook-temporary?ref=shop_home_feat_1

10/24/11

Morsels Hung On Hooks - Halloweeny 13 Myna Birds

The new Halloweeny Thirteen Myna Birds is now live!

Featuring darkly delicious oodles by Bonnie MacAllister, Tiffany Midge, David Greenspan, Eleanor Leonne Bennett, Paul David Adkins, Kari Larsen, & John Rocco - this issue has SIXTEEN scrumptious offerings:

http://13myna.blogspot.com/

a puddle of thick pink - some would call this puddle a flood - a hot house exertion - a little bit demonic - a carnival of wasp stingers - thrashing on a carousel – pompoms bursting – floating ghost - packed to slats with pillaged finery - drowned in the foam – the apertures pearl with blood – plummet beyond sound - peek inside…

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Here is a delightful note about this Thirteen Myna Birds update from one of it poets, David Greenspan:

"I have two poems up in the Halloween issue of Thirteen Myna Birds. Thirteen Myna Birds is the brain-child of Juliet Cook, who seems to have a book out on every press ever. She rocks and her journal is pretty cool. Dark, very dark....The lay out of the journal is rad. They have thirteen (sixteen for Halloween) pieces, ordered from thirteen to one. When a new piece is published, the piece numbered one gets pushed off the journal. Keeps things temporary, urgent maybe? Read my poems here while you can. http://13myna.blogspot.com/. "

(I sure as heck don't have a book out from every press ever, but reading that amuses me greatly; haha.)

AND here is an oddly amusingly fun snippet from another of this updates poets, Kari Larsen, re: Thirteen Myna Birds and Twin Peaks:

"Speaking of Juliet Cook's killer Thirteen Myna Birds, the new issue is celebrating Halloween with three poems from Say you're a fiction! Thirteen Myna Birds is a Twin Peaks reference. My best friend Clare is being Laura Palmer for Halloween."

(I wonder if Kari Larsen knows that my very first print poetry chapbook was inspired by Laura Palmer - http://www.etsy.com/listing/58029753/halloween-lynchian-the-laura-poems-by

4/8/10

Twin Peaks & More!

More poetry reading coming soon.

For now, if you're interested in Twin Peaks and Poetry, check out my Blood Pudding Press blog for a little article complete with links and photos about Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary!

http://bloodyooze.blogspot.com/

You also might want to consider submitting a Twin Peaks related or inspired poem to Thirteen Myna Birds, which will likely be updated later this month.

4/22/09

pig troughs & cake frosting

I've recently written new Associated Content articles regarding Father's Day, P.J. Harvey, Rasputina, Twin Peaks and David Lynch as creative catalysts, and the Surly Girl Saloon in Columbus, Ohio--with more coming soon. Check them out if so inclined.

Juliet Cook's Source Page - Associated Content

http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/363475/juliet_cook.html

I'm also working on some rather squalid new poetry, which I may or may not post here. The latest piece involves pig troughs and cake frosting--in one way or another...