PCC INSCAPE MAGAZINE
  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board

I AM THE TREES AND THE ROCKS​

A poem by Brandon Rouzaud

I. STAND TALL AND PROUD. I AM. OLD. VERY OLD
OLDER THAN THE THINGS. THE THINGS THAT BUZZ AROUND
ME. THERE ARE OTHERS. LIKE ME. ME THAT STANDS AGAINST THE
WINDS. AGAINST WATERS. WE WERE CREATED TO PROTECT. SO WE
STAND TALL AND PROUD. WE PROTECT THE THINGS. BUT WE DO NOT SPEAK.
WE CANNOT SEE, NO. BUT. WE CAN HEAR. THEY SAY. THE THINGS SAY. THAT
WE HAVE THE. EARS. BUT WE ONLY HEAR. THINGS THAT ARE. LOUD? NO DEEP.
WE ONLY. HEAR. THINGS THAT VIBRATE IN OUR BEAMS. SOMETIMES WE TRY
TO REPLICATE THOSE SOUNDS. IT SCARES THE THINGS AWAY. THE OLDEST OF
US. THE DYING AND DECREPIT ONES MAKE THOSE SOUNDS. OFTEN THEY DO.
THEY WANT TO BE LEFT. ALONE. BUT THAT IS ENOUGH. THOUGHTS OF MINE. I
HAVE SPENT MUCH TIME ON THIS. IT HAS LAXED MY WALLS. THE THINGS THAT
BUZZ THEY SPEAK VERY FAST. THEY CAN SAY A WORD. IN AN INSTANT. BUT WE
CANNOT. IT TAKES WE MUCH LONGER. WE TAKE OUR STRENGTHS FROM THAT
WHICH WE WERE MADE. TREES AND ROCKS. MAYBE THAT IS WHY THEY. CANNOT
UNDERSTAND. WE.
-Inspired by the Shalebridge Cradle: a haunted building that remembers people

​I was born August 3rd, 1991 as a sporadic and imaginative kid split between two
parents. I have been writing creatively since I was in middle school, influenced by
all the superheroes I wanted to be. I have seen more stories (books and TV shows)
than I can count over the years across all genres, and all of them have influenced
my writings giving me a broad range of styles and inspiration. After my initial
college years, I went into the Navy and lost touch with my creative writing. I spent
most of my Navy time studying for rank and operational exams. It was on a long
deployment, when things were quiet in transit, that my creativity was reborn in
droll boredom. That was the first short story length writing I had ever had, and I
actually looked forward to writing it whenever I knew there was nothing going on.
When I returned to college, the short story I wrote prompted me to take a short
story writing class where, I feel that, I wrote some of my best work. Throughout
my two years getting my Associates in Arts at Pasadena City College, I wrote many
types of creative writing and people who read them enjoyed them giving me the
confidence to be a writer. Although my ideal dream job has been to be a librarian,
my greatest goal would be to write and publish a book that people love; it
wouldn’t even have to be a best seller, just be loved by many.
Picture
Proudly powered by Weebly
  • Online Issue No. 10
  • About
    • PCC Inscape Instagram
  • SUBMISSIONS
  • ISSUE ARCHIVE
    • Online Issue No.9
    • 2016 Fall Online
    • 2016 Sppring Online
    • 2017 Fall Online
    • 2017 Print Issue - Manifesto TOC
    • 2018 Fall Print Issue - Frankenstein TOC
    • 2018 FA Frankenstein Companion
    • 2018 Summer Online
    • 2018 Fall Folio - VOTE
    • 2018 Fall Spirituality
    • 2019 Celebrating Dia De Los Muertos
    • 2019 SPR Mental Health Companion >
      • Issue Intro
    • 2019 Fall Folio -- Moon Moon
    • 2019 Fall Folio
    • 2020 Summer Folio
    • 2020 Feb Folio
    • 2021 Feb Folio
  • Feral Parrot : The Blog
  • 2022 Handley Awards
  • INTERVIEWS
  • Inscape Alumni Board