tonguepocket is a photo music zine by Briyan Frederick. Each page is a collage of Briyan’s photos in abstract. The collage is language modeled for an initial lyric and is then modeled for music as Briyan rearranges and adds pieces to form the eventual tonguepocket prose. A printed zine is created once the album is complete, with added stories and art by Briyan.
the sky remembers nothing
Blind Mime Ensemble (tonguepocket zine #2) — Read more
Blind Mime Ensemble (tonguepocket zine #2) — Read more
- the sky remembers nothing
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album tonguepocket zine #2
Read more - buzzsaw in the glovebox
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album tonguepocket zine #2
Read more - this flesh never breaks
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album tonguepocket zine #2
Read more - inside the secret room
Blind Mime Ensemble
from the album tonguepocket zine #2
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I parked the moon in a limousine shadow,
tied one shoe with a golden lasso.
The puppet’s grin was carved in stone—
or maybe clay, or maybe bone.
Feather static in the drought of June,
whispers caught in a red balloon.
I saw you in the one-way sky,
counting tears with your blistered eye.
[chorus]
This flesh never breaks,
Even when the mirror aches.
I pull the rope, you mouth the cue—
The mime is me, the gesture's you.
We practiced silence on a cardboard stage,
blew kisses through the traffic cage.
You read my name from a napkin slip—
I kissed it shut with a soda drip.
There’s music scrawled in static dust,
a piano bleeding radio rust.
We played until the wire snapped—
then sat politely, unstrapped, unmapped.
[chorus]
This flesh never breaks,
Even when the mirror aches.
I pull the rope, you mouth the cue—
The mime is me, the gesture's you.
